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[mpierce]

Samuel
Thanks for reply.
My response shown below each of your questions.
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:05, you wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001, mpierce wrote:
> > VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.72 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN
>
>    0.2.72 is extremely old. We're at 0.2.82 now, try to get more recent
> version or you'll run into a lot of already solved bugs.

The newer version 2.8.0 for Mandrake is calling for XFree86-4.1. 
Didn't want to install this as yet since these are development rpms for 
Mandrake system. Wanted to try an older version of VLC to see if I could get 
it working before I broke anything by installing XFree86-4.1.

>
> > input error: no suitable input module for `dvd:/dev/dvd'
> > 	error message continues to repeat
> >
> > Obviously missing something. Can anyone advise?
>
>    Do you have read/write permissions to /dev/dvd and the device it
> points to in case it is a symlink ?

[root at localhost mpierce]# ls /dev/dvd -al
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mpierce  root           10 Jul 16 13:58 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom
[root at localhost mpierce]# ls /dev/cdrom -al
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mpierce  root            3 Jul 15 21:55 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
[root at localhost mpierce]# ls /dev/hdc -al
brw-------    1 mpierce  cdrom     22,   0 Sep 27  2000 /dev/hdc
[root at localhost mpierce]#

Trying vlc as user producing this message (program launching but no ability 
to open a file):
 
[mpierce at localhost VLC]$ vlc
VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.72 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN
 
module error: failed calling init in builtin module
intf: interface initialized
vout: video display initialized (720x576, 16/16 bpp)
vout: YUV acceleration unavailable !

Suggestions?

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