Problems with VLC 0.4.1

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On 27 Jun 2002 23:54:41 -0500
"Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen at inav.net> wrote:

> Howdy, y'all.  I had VLC 0.4.1 working up until very recently, where I
> swapped out my DVD-ROM for a DVD/CD-RW combo.  In order to burn CDs, I
> have to tell the kernel that /dev/hdc (aka /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd) is to
> be treated as a SCSI device (/dev/hdc=ide-scsi).
> 
> Now, though, VLC has busted.
> 
> libdvdcss error: failed opening device
> dvd error: dvdcss can't open device
> module error: requested access module `dvd' unavailable
> input error: no suitable access plug-in for `dvd/:/dev/dvd at 1,1'

Where does /dev/dvd point to?

# ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 10. Mr 20:46 /dev/dvd -> sr0

No problems with it. Also check your kernel version.

Hans-Peter

> Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem may be?
> 
> On the off chance that I'd done something hinky to VLC, I recompiled
> from source--libdvbpsi, libdvdcss and vlc.  I still get the above
> errors.
 

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