installed a dvd player/burner... What now? [solved!]

[machinelou]

I recently installed a dvd burner/player in place of a cd burner. Here's what I've got working:

1) Mount and Read CDs and DVDs
2) Burn CDs and DVDs using k3b

Here's what doesn't work:

1) There is no /dev/dvd. How do I make one?
2) I cannot play DVDs. I know this is more of a multimedia question, but I'm not sure if my problem is due to a problem setting up mplayer or a problem configuring the DVD drive. Feel free to move it if it belongs in Multimedia or portage. How do I get mplayer to play DVDs? Here's the error I get when I type "mplayer /dev/cdroms/cdrom0" or "mplayer /mnt/cdrom" when its mounted:

MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE



85 audio & 196 video codecs
Playing /dev/cdroms/cdrom0.
Cache fill: 9.08% (761856 bytes) XMMS: found plugin: libvorbis.so (Ogg Vorbis Player 1.2.10)
XMMS: found plugin: libmp4.so (MP4 & MPEG2/4-AAC audio player - 1.2.x)
XMMS: found plugin: libmpg123.so (MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player 1.2.10)
XMMS: found plugin: libxmmsmad.so (MAD MPEG Decoder plugin 0.
XMMS: found plugin: libmikmod.so (MikMod Player 1.2.10)
XMMS: found plugin: libxmms-flac.so (Reference FLAC Player v1.1.1)
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmikmod.so
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmmsmad.so
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so
XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libvorbis.so


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Thanks

[machinelou]

Never mind, I found the answer in another post!

I just created a symlink from /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to /dev/dvd then the mplayer command mplayer dvd://1 worked!

Thanks!