I had to do this before Xine would recognise my DVD's ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/dvd ln -s /dev/acd0 /dev/rdvd Check these :- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/video-playback.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/03/FreeBSD_Basics.html Custom PC North West Open Source Solutions http://www.cpcnw.co.uk