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[mpierce]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:56, you wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001, mpierce wrote:
> > The newer version 2.8.0 for Mandrake is calling for XFree86-4.1.
>
>    You can try to compile vlc, then.

Worked fine with Gnome GUI.
1st impressions - great piece of work. Far superior to Livid. I'll compare 
against Xine and let you know. 

>
> > >    Do you have read/write permissions to /dev/dvd and the device it
> > > points to in case it is a symlink ?
> >
> > brw-------    1 mpierce  cdrom     22,   0 Sep 27  2000 /dev/hdc
> >
> > Trying vlc as user producing this message (program launching but no
> > ability to open a file):
> >
> > [mpierce at localhost VLC]$ vlc
>
>    Use "vlc dvd:/dev/dvd" if you don't have a GUI.

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