Playing DVDs with xine

[Andrew Elmore]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:39:00PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
> Has anyone gotten xine to play DVDs? I have installed
> it from /usr/ports/multimedia/xine and setup /dev/dvd,
> but I keep getting this error:
> 
> This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.23.
> (c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc3a from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
> 
> ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/cd0
> 
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    4,  20 Mar 18 07:47 /dev/cd0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel            3 Mar 18 17:51 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cd0


Despite the error message, you probably need to make sure your userid
can write to the dvd device.

A good tool to use for solving this kind of problem is truss or
ktrace.  That will show you what the program is *really* doing!

regards,
Andrew