[MPlayer-users] A newbie to Mplayer and redhat needs help

[John Richard Smith]

Menanet wrote:

> Hi Guys I have installed Mplayer on redhat9 tried to operate VCD and 
> DVD and I find a message that it is not able to open the video output 
> device (-vo)
> and another message that has something to do with not able to open 
> device on /dev/dvd
>  
> Thanx
> Ehab

"not able to open device on /dev/dvd"
means something is up with your dvd drive as a system device.

In a terminal,
ll /dev/dvd   see what it says.

Is your drive scsi-emulated in RH9 ?
If is is you probably need to create a link between /dev/dvd to 
/dev/scd0, or /dev/scd1, as the case may be.

Take a look inside /etc/fstab and see how your dvd is set up.

John


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