[ILUG] Help with DVD I/O errors?

[Nick Murtagh]

On Monday 28 January 2002 22:54, you wrote:
> You need UDF filesystem to mount a DVD - however, there is no need to have
> UDF if you have Xine, Ogle or MPlayer (in reverse order of preference ;),
> as the DVD decoder libraries handle the contents. You just pop in a DVD
> and click the play button in either program..provided it's compiled right
> ;)

Yes, the disk does not need to be mounted. Just do File Open (NOT File Open 
Disc) and type in /dev/hdc or whatever the device name is. Works for me :)

> Ah..maybe you need a /dev/dvd symlink from the actual device?
> Have a look in Ogle's readme for anything mentioning links, /dev/dvd etc.

Yeah, I think it tries to open /dev/dvd... do any distros actually 
create a /dev/dvd? Or configure devfs to create one?

Nick