Stil nothing playing...

[Michael Willems]

John,

No blue screen, no DVD drive sound. (When I manually ask for device
/dev/cdrom, I do get sound, but -vvvvv then just shows read errors).

I;m sure I am close.... :)

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf
Of John Marr
Sent: October 23, 2001 19:56
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: Re: Stil nothing playing...


Question:

When you attempt to play a dvd, do you get a blue screen and sound like
the dvd is playing?

If that is the case, then the problem is that the default dvd player is
/dev/dvd. If you start vlc and change the default to /dev/cdrom THEN play
the dvd, it will work. This happens to me all the time. What bugs me,
however, is the fact that I save this setting in the preferences, but each
time i start vlc, the default is still /dev/dvd.

Best of luck

John Marr

> Apologies for another newbie question... but still, nothing happens when
> I
> start vlc. (New patched RedHat 7.1 system, Nvidia driver loaded,
> libdvdcss
> and vlc installed from tarball).
>
> One thing I have noticed is that I have no device /dev/dvd. Any tips
> there?
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>