DVD drive not seen

[chejose]

I am running FC6, and have two drives: One CD read/write and one DVD read.
Fedora does not seem to recognize the existance of the DVD drive. The bios does, since this is a dual boot machine and Windows sees the drive.
Is there a way to have Fedora recognize the existance of the drive?

And a second question: Is it possible to play DVDs on Fedora using only the drive, or is more hardware necessary? What program would be needed?
Thanks for your help.
Jose

[Seve]

Hello:
When you pop a disk in your DVD drive is there an entry created in your
/etc/mtab file ?

You can play DVD's with vlc, mplayer etc

Seve

[leigh123linux]

Hi,

To play encypted DVD's you will need to install libdvdcss

su -
yum install libdvdcss

[chejose]

Seve:
Well, there could be an entry, but I have no idea how to read the file. Here it is:

/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/datafiles vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

Does that tell you that there are two drives?
José

[chejose]

An added note.
When I put a DVD in the drive the drive runs... I can hear it now running. But nothing shows up in "Computer".
José

[Wayne]

An added note.
When I put a DVD in the drive the drive runs... I can hear it now running. But nothing shows up in "Computer".
José

Is this a data DVD or a commercial video DVD? If the latter I have the same problem but I only have one drive in my system. I'm surprised this bug hasn't been quashed yet. Not only does nothing show up in 'Computer' but the DVD drive icon 'disappears'

Wayne

[Seve]

Hello:
If there is a commerical movie loaded in your dvd drive, then open up mplayer and see if you an can open up the disc and play the movie.

And as Leigh noted, you should make sure you have libdvdcss installed first.

Seve

[chejose]

It is a video DVD. I have used the drive in Windows for that purpose. Sounds like the problem is not only mine.
José

[Wayne]

This disappearing video DVD drive icon thing has been going on for a while now, I can't understand why it hasn't been fixed. The only player that will open the disk is Xine here.

Wayne

[chejose]

Well, if Fedora can "see" the CD drive, it would seem logical that it could "see" the DVD drive also. If I open movie player, there is no indication of the existance of the drive, even though it is running.
So is the problem that Fedora does not like DVD drives? If there were two CD drives would it recognize both?
As others have written, it looks like a "bug"
José

[Wayne]

Well, if Fedora can "see" the CD drive, it would seem logical that it could "see" the DVD drive also. If I open movie player, there is no indication of the existance of the drive, even though it is running.
So is the problem that Fedora does not like DVD drives? If there were two CD drives would it recognize both?
As others have written, it looks like a "bug"
José

It could be a bug in the automount feature. The only media player that can open and play DVDs in my drive is Xine. Nothing else can 'see' the DVD. Funny thing is this is only with commercial video DVDs. If I make a copy of a video DVD it shows up just fine on the desktop and in 'Computer'

Wayne

[Wayne]

Here are two screenshots, one with the drive empty and one with a commercial DVD in the drive. Now you see it, now you don't :)

Wayne

[leigh123linux]

You could add the drive to your fstab

e.g

first make the mount point

su -
mkdir /media/cdrom0

then add this line to /etc/fstab

/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

then you could create a symlink

su -
ln -sf /dev/hda /dev/dvd

[Wayne]

You could add the drive to your fstab

e.g

first make the mount point

su -
mkdir /media/cdrom0

/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

then you could create a symlink

su -
ln -sf /dev/hda /dev/dvd

Wouldn't it be better to have the bug fixed? :D

Wayne

[leigh123linux]

Wouldn't it be better to have the bug fixed? :D

Wayne

Yes it would great ( if anyone at FC cares )

On the other hand I bet hundreds of people have reported this to bugzilla in the six months FC6 has been out , what is the point of reporting it if no one fixes it :rolleyes: .
I wouldn't be suprised if this fault is present in FC7 when it is released. :rolleyes:

p.s I can play two DVD's a the same time on my FC6 install with no mods to my fstab :) :p

[chejose]

OK... I give up. Since I am getting a new and larger monitor I thought it would be a good idea, but...
I installed libdvdcss and Xine. I made the additions to fstab. But Fedora still thinks there is no DVD drive.
So thanks for the input... learned something new.
José

[leigh123linux]

Did you remember to correct the dev address ( /dev/hda was a example onl ) to match you DVD?

[chejose]

Leigh:
Well, after playing around with Xine, to my great surprise I got a DVD to work (it is always a happy surprise for me when something in Linux works!)
But... it is a kind of background DVD... music and fish swimming, so would probably have no area code.
So when I put a "normal" DVD in it starts OK, but then the little notice comes up about encripting. I installed libdvdcss as you said. Does it have some kind of configuration? At least it does not seem to work.
José

[leigh123linux]

I think xine has a region setting in settings

If you use the livna repo try this

su -
yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree

if you dont install the release key first

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

another good player is mplayer

su -
yum install mplayer-gui

[chejose]

Leigh:
I had already installed the xine-lib-extras-nonfree, but still no luck. But I just now tried using Mplayer (had it installed) and the DVD plays OK. It would not before, but I guess all the tweaks I have done since solved the situation.
Many thanks, again Leigh for your help.
José

[Wayne]

Don't know if it helps:

libdvdcss.i386 1.2.9-4.lvn6 installed
libdvdnav.i386 0.1.10-3.fc6 installed
libdvdplay.i386 1.0.1-5.fc6.rf installed
libdvdread.i386 0.9.7-2.fc6 installed

Wayne