Re: fc4 - dvdrip/libdvdcss can't access /dev/dvd

Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jeremy Rosengren wrote:

> Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
>  Jeremy Rosengren wrote :
> 
>  libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/hdc with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdc for reading
> (iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/hdc"
> 
> /dev/hdc is the device of my DVD drive, and is owned by the user running 
> dvdrip, with 666 permissions.  selinux is disabled.
> 
> Is this a libdvdread problem or a libdvdcss problem?
>     
> 
>  Good question, seems strange :-/
> 
> Could you try reading the DVD with xine or mplayer and see what gives?
> 
> mplayer dvd://1 and xine both died when trying to read the DVD.  mplayer's error was similar to the
> error that dvdrip gave, xine gave some cryptic error that I interpret to be similar.  Neither
> mplayer nor xine were able to access the DVD drive.

Does this happen with other DVDs (or even CDs) too ?
Can you mount the DVD like a normal CD ?
Does /var/log/messages give an error indication ?

I remember having problems with some of the DVD libraries on 1 single DVD 
that played well on another system. After cleaning it, it worked. YMMV

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