Hey Guys, R5E50 was really easy to install, the first time I had only to change 3 files or so toe get pal working properly.

but today I wanted to watch a DVD there popped up a very short error Message, he says he can`t access the dvd, but he can! the rights are ok!

he doesn`t play with



and not with



Where is the problem?

I can access the files on a dvd by using the /media/cdrom button

but xine don`t want to do anything

If the DVD is a commercial one, it is probably protected by CSS and region coding. Unfortunately due to Patent and other legislation, cecil cannot supply DeCSS that would allow the playback of CSS protected disks.
There used to be a way of installing DeCSS from the VLC site.

Bruce S.

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Thanks, but thats not the problem, first the libdvdcss2 is installed and the dvd is not protected

Other Ideas?

I'm guessing the problem is that /dev/dvd is not mapped to the correct physical device. I use an external USB DVD-RW drive for my myth system so I can kept the PC behind my entertainment center (quieter and more aesthetically pleasing to the wife) and ran into this issue.

Since R5E50 now uses udev you can no longer just create a symlink from dev/dvd to the proper physical device as you could in previous versions of Knoppmyth as the symlink won't be kept after a reboot.

I was able to solve my problem by editing the udev rules to map the proper symlinks to my external USB drive.

First I highly recommend reading up on udev. A little knowledge can go a long way.

Then have a look at your /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules file (I highly recommend creating a backup in you home directory in case you screw up!). You should see several rules for your dvd drive(s).
Look for where it says SYMLINK+= in each of the lines and see what is listed. If one of them does not say SYMLINK+="dvd" then your command to play dvds won't work.
In my case I had to change the entries from "cdrom1" to "cdrom", "cdrw1" to "cdrw", "dvd1" to "dvd", and "dvdrw1" to "dvdrw".
Make sure that you don't already have another drive mapped to those links. If you do you will have to change the links for the other drive or remove those entries if you no longer use that drive.

Alternatively you might be able to change your command to play dvds to whatever the device is being mapped to by udev. For example: dvd1:// or --auto-scan dvd1 but I have not tested this so I don't know if it works.

Hope this helps,

Martian

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OK Thanks a lot for this.. I will try later.

But this is a fresh knoppmyth Install, am I the only one with this Problem, and when yes, Why?

This an ordinary Internal IDE DVD ROM which works for knoppmyth for years now... ?!?

Well we`ll see...

Bye...

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Same issue here now. What is " The Pineapple?"

it is a Piece of Software that is in a binary form illegal in some parts of the world. it descrambless css encoded dvds to make it possible to watch them in linux!

go to videolan.org...

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When I installed pineapple from source, the install script placed it in a location that doesn't appear in /etc/ld.so.conf

Adding that location to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig got my dvds playing.

Hey this is not your thread!
Maake your own,...

you can apt-get isntall the libdvd css2

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Somebody posted this elsewhere.

Bruce S.

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I had the same issue as the first poster. If i went into /dev there was no dvd device. There is a /dev/dvd1 that is linked to the dvd drive. I just did

and that fixed it. Martian poster mentioned that this will not be persistent after a reboot so Im going to do some reading about udev. I did try using dvd1:// and that did not work. I tried auto-scan but that did not work also

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I just solved a similar problem. I changed DVD drives and they wouldn't play. I found that /dev/dvd1 was being created instead of /dev/dvd. I found you need to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules to make udev assign it to /dev/dvd again.