DVD set-up help

[leegold]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:35:31 -0500 (EST), "Chris Hill"
<chris at monochrome.org> said:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, leegold wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to figure out DVD playback. I have 6.2 w/KDE-lite. I can play
> > audio CD's on the DVD. I have installed and want to use VLC.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Thanks, The end result I want is to be able to play movies.
> 
> I can't answer all your specific questions, but all I had to do to play 
> movies was this:
> 
> 1. Install vlc, which you've done;
> 2. As root, mount the dvd;
> 3. As ordinary user, run vlc like
>    vlc dvd:///dev/acd1


Many thanks,

I just had to mount the DVD device as root - like you said.

I have DVD movie/video playback now. Thanks.



> 
> My ordinary user has write access and group ownership on the DVD drive 
> device file, but I don't know if that is necessary. Also I have those 
> sysctls set like so:
>   kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432
>   kern.ipc.shmall: 8192
> 
> ...again, I'm not sure how necessary that is.
> 
> HTH.
> 
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> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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