No DVD's in Hades

[sgtdetritus]

Hey everyone. I hope someone might help me find that one last little detail I'm missing in getting FC3 to play DVD's. I prefer xine, but vlc or any other media client will do. Hardware works fine in windoze (dual boot machine) it also worked fine with fc2. the DVD drive is a combo DVD/cdburner and the burn and read functions fine under FC#. Here is the problem. Xine does nto want to read DVDs. It tells me "There is no input/plugin available to handle dvd:/. I've gone back thru and made sure Ihave libdvdread and libdvdcss installed, as I did under prior versions, and that the input is set to the proper device (/media/cdrecorder1).
Also, VLC won't even open the disk. xine at least makes some pretense of spinning up. in all cases I made sure the drive was mounted. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance

[jamdusr]

have you done xine-check in a shell? Usually this error tells you to re-install the xine libraries.
However what the actual cause of the error is a bit more difficult to determine.
You might want to visit the xine-users mailing list.http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...?forum_id=3438

[new_to_linux]

I never got xine to work properly, even mplayer. Try Totem-xine it worked for me.
Good luck.

[sgtdetritus]

Hey everyone, I finally got it working. First, I used synaptic to do a complete removal of xine and all libraries. I then used synaptic to reinstall everything including xine-lib-devel just in case I needed it. I then went into to the setup pages and discovered a ridiculously simple problem. it was trying to read DVD's from /media/cdrecorder1, so I changed it to read from /dev/hdc. dunno which of these steps wrked, but it's fixed now

[tejas]

It was the last one.

Xine reads from your DVD without mounting it.

If you ever looked at the folder /media/cdrecord, you would have realised that it is a completely empty folder

Xine reads from the actual Device