playing a dvd

[Fabian Keil]

eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> wrote:

> Fabian Keil wrote:
> > eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs 
> >> but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd.
> >> I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal.
> >> $mplayer dvd://1
> >> gives me:
> >>
> >> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> >> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/acd0 for reading.
> >> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0
> >>
> >> This seems to have happened a few weeks ago, because i have used 
> >> kmplayer (on gnome) before and I had no problems playing dvd's.
> >> Could someone help me out?
> > 
> > Does your user have read permissions for /dev/acd0?

> Thanks Fabian
> How can i check this. Im not using root.
 
fk at TP51 ~ $ls -l /dev/acd0 
crw-rw----  1 root  operator    0,  99 Apr 30 13:28 /dev/acd0

fk at TP51 ~ $id
uid=1001(fk) gid=1001(fk) groups=1001(fk), 0(wheel), 5(operator), 201(privoxy)

To get these permissions I have: 

fk at TP51 ~ $grep ^perm /etc/devfs.conf
perm    smb0    0660
perm    acd0    0660
perm    xpt0    0660
perm    pass0   0660

If your user isn't already part of the operator group you
could add him/her, or make /dev/acd0 world readable (0664).

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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