[MPlayer-users] DVD drive support in RH8.0?

Sat Aug 30 21:42:40 CEST 2003

On Saturday, 30 August 2003, bubba smith wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Ok, I've got mplayer 0.90 installed and it appears to be working fine.  How 
> do I get my DVD/CDRW (LiteOn) drive to be seen by RH8.0 and thus be able to 
> play a dvd movie from it in MPlayer?  right now it looks like RH8.0 
> recognizes it just as a cdrom (iso9660) drive in etc/fstab .

1. What does `dmesg | grep DVD` say?
2. You don't need to mount DVDs to watch them using MPlayer.

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