[MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST and could not open device

[Giacomo Comes]

Do you (the user that start mplayer) have rw permission to /dev/sr0?

Giacomo

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:50:38PM +0100, Russell Packer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've hunted high and low through all the manuals, the faq, and the
> wonderful world of google, but can't seem to get mplayer to play my
> DVDs!
> 
> I'm using Slackware 10, and have the following DVD writer:
> 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: _NEC     Model: DVD_RW ND-2510A  Rev: 2.15
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> The error messages I get:
> 
> Playing dvd://1.
> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> 
> And in the syslog I get:
> 
> kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
> 
> 
> I have /dev/dvd linked to /dev/sr0, and the DVD plays back OK in xine.
> 
> 
> Any ideas, as I'm stumped...
> 
> Thanks!


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