Reading regular DVD's

SmartServ Hosting jeremy at smart-serv.net
Wed Jun 30 23:44:46 PDT 2004


MPlayer cannot read it if it is mounted. It is readable by users, but I have also tried everything as root.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:25:38 +0900
Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:15:33 -0700
> SmartServ Hosting <jeremy at smart-serv.net> spake thus:
> 
> > dmesg | grep acd
> > acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B> at ata1-master UDMA33
> > 
> > FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
> > 
> > When I insert a DVD movie /dev/acd0c doesn't register therefore I cannot use mplayer or anything to view the DVD.
> 
> forgive the silly question but did you mount the drive? Is the drive
> readable by your user or are you doing this as root?
> 
> HTH
> 
> LukeK
> -- 
> Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net>
> 


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