[MPlayer-users] A newbie to Mplayer and redhat needs help

[Pablo Morales]

Maybe as a regular user you donnot have permissions, did you tried as root?

Good luck..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Richard Smith" <BAGSOFCHOICE at oldtolley.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports"
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] A newbie to Mplayer and redhat needs help


> Menanet wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys I have installed Mplayer on redhat9 tried to operate VCD and
> > DVD and I find a message that it is not able to open the video output
> > device (-vo)
> > and another message that has something to do with not able to open
> > device on /dev/dvd
> >
> > Thanx
> > Ehab
>
> "not able to open device on /dev/dvd"
> means something is up with your dvd drive as a system device.
>
> In a terminal,
> ll /dev/dvd   see what it says.
>
> Is your drive scsi-emulated in RH9 ?
> If is is you probably need to create a link between /dev/dvd to
> /dev/scd0, or /dev/scd1, as the case may be.
>
> Take a look inside /etc/fstab and see how your dvd is set up.
>
> John
>
>
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> John Richard Smith
> BAGSOFCHOICE at oldtolley.fsnet.co.uk
>
>
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