Re: DVD burners

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into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Sunday 05 November 2006 
9:18 pm, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
> Would that also be true for a USB connected external DVD burner drive?
> If yes then what device would I find it under in My Computer?
> Where would I find it in YAST?

in your "my computer"  folder and using Suse , any version that I can 
recall.. the dvd or  cd player or burner doesn't appear unless you have a 
disk in the drive, at which time you will notice it, as it will look like 
some iconic representation of a cd or dvd.. 

Suse shows your media drivers in the /media directory, and , of course 
also in the /dev directory, but if you wish just to see if it's 
recognised, look in media , it will be called something like cd or dvd 
recorder (assuming you have a recorder rather than just a player cd is 
usually called cdrecorder and the dvd is dvdrecorder, oddly enough. ;)

that is all that needs to be done since 9.1 on.. nothing in yast or 
anywhere else. 

You can record data as well as multimedia , even video there is a Divx for 
Linux as well as emovix ( all purpose video player you can put in a disc 
w/ lots and lots of movie clips, if you have a capture card... ) You need 
to get lame or use Real Player for mp3 ,  Kaffeine will play mpegs and 
Divx IIRC  you need to locate libdvdcss *or* use a ful copy of Mplayer to 
decode movie dvds to watch on your computer.

Hope this helps, or gives you a few places to look for more info.. 


-- 
j

See ya Space Cowboy
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