How to read a DVD??

[orga408]

I have a DVD-ROM drive. However, I cannot enjoy my DVD movies since there are no players in my newly-installed Debian 3.1 that can support the DVD format...

Anybody here can give me a hint???

[soulbrothax831]

To watch DVDs, you'll need libdvdcss installed. A good DVD player is ogle and there's also xine and mplayer, if you want to look into other video players.

Hope this helps.

[orga408]

To watch DVDs, you'll need libdvdcss installed. A good DVD player is ogle and there's also xine and mplayer, if you want to look into other video players.

Hope this helps.

I have installed ogle as u told me...however, i cannot use it...

here are the error msg..

libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
DVDSetDVDRoot:: Root not set

[Vergil83]

you may have to change where it is trying to play...... it could be

/mnt/dvd 
/mnt/cdrom 
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdd

[orga408]

Can u be more specific...

[Vergil83]

Can u be more specific...

in ogle there *should* be an option to use a different location to play your dvd from (I don't know where the dvd is at on your system and I don't know where the option is on ogle, because I don't use it). But under some menu in ogle you should be able to set the location. Try the places I said.

[orga408]

Thx for ur advice. Now I can enjoy my DVDs...

Thx a lot

[Gnux]

Lo
First u must install a player:

apt-get install mplayer # or totem vlc xine whatever player u want

Then u must make a symlink between /dev/dvd and ur dvd reader to find ti type sth like:

dmesg | grep /dev/hd*

So:

ln -sf /dev/dvd /dev/hd(the letter of ur reader here)

Finally get a try
PS: dont forget to install libdvdcss
PPS:look here http://debian.video.free.fr/