On Wed, Feb 14, 2001, Stéphane Borel wrote: > ./vlc --warning 1 --input /dev/dvd Be careful: the argument to --input has to be either "dvd" or "ps", for the input method (defaulting to ps), while /dev/dvd is the name of the target. So you really meant to do: ./vlc --warning 1 --input dvd /dev/dvd -- Sam.