mplayer: Can't open VMG

[itzig]

trying to get mplayer working, I just added the symlink and changed permission:
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
chmod g+rw /dev/dvd

when I try to play the dvd, I get:
$ mplayer dvd://
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!

checking the permissions I get this (!?):

$ ls -l /dev/dvd
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-06-18 15:47 hdc -> /dev/hdc
$ ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2006-06-18 06:52 /dev/hdc

Obviously it is not pointing to dev/dvd, how can I change that?

thanks in advance for any help!

[itzig]

thank you! I was just about to go in and delete the "dvd" directory in /etc, when to my surprise I could not find it anymore!?
So I added a new "dvd" directory, and did:
$ ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/hdc
and I get:
ln: `/dev/hdc': File exists

something is screwed up now..

[spencerf]

sorry I was wrong, messed up the order in my head, try:

rm /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
chmod 777 /dev/dvd

mplayer dvd://

if that doesn't work then you can pass the

mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://

command to tell mplayer where to look for dvd device untill you can figure out the linking problem.

[itzig]

thank you!

I did that but I still get:
$ ls -l /dev/dvd
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-06-19 21:17 hdc -> /dev/hdc

$ mplayer dvd://
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!

$mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://
Playing dvd://.
after that nothing happens..!? what am I missing?

[spencerf]

do you have libdvdcss (this allows you to view encrypted dvd's)?

[itzig]

yeah, I got all that installed...!