mplayer-problems

[Mehul Ved]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:14:06PM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> In the terminal
> [user at host /usr/home/user]$ mplayer -vo xv dvd://3 -dvd-device /dev/acd0
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1000MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, 
> Stepping: 1)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
> control.
>
> Playing dvd://3.
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/acd0
> No stream found to handle url dvd://3

See the error, it says it can't open /dev/acd0. Problems is that your
permissions are set right. Set the right permissions for /dev/acd0 and
things should be fine.