[MPlayer-users] Problems when changing the default cdrom device (was: MPlayer and Debian Sarge)

[Rickard Närström]

tisdag 11 juli 2006 14:56 skrev Rodolfo Medina:
> Hi, mplayer listers.
>
> I have a dvd reader/writer and also a cd reader, so I wish to watch dvd's
> with my dvd device and listen to audio cdrom's with my cd device.
> But, if I try to start mplayer with a different value for the cdrom device
> (/dev/hdb in place of the default /dev/hdc), with:
>
>  $ mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdd cdda://

If you want mplayer to read from /dev/hdb you must 
write '-cdrom-device /dev/hdb' and not '-cdrom-device /dev/hdd'.

If you truly want to play from /dev/hdd you are probebly missing the device 
node.