DVD Playback!

[Arkas]

I am having problems playing a dvd with mplayer on Red Hat 9. When i use mplayer -dvd 1 (or any other number) i get an error saying that /dev/dvd not found. I have a samsung 612s dvd rom that works fine in winxp. How can i get it to work with RH9? When i mount the dvd rom and try to play the .vob files with mplayer the mplayer starts but i only see a scramble signal.
Any ideas???

[Dolda2000]

Try running the following as root.

ln -s hdc /dev/dvd

[Arkas]

Cool it works great now thanks. I am beginning to like Linux more and more as days pass. I finally managed (with your precious help) to make it play mp3s, divx movies, dvds and log in the internet using my winmodem.
Thanks again for your help i could not have done this without you,
I am writting this message using my internet connection through Linux and Mozilla.

[Dolda2000]

Even though that WinModem of yours works, you should consider getting a real modem instead. They use less system overhead, and are probably faster as well.

[yowwww]

I have added this to my helpful tips page on my guide with screenshots and everything!

look in the properties section of your mplayer and see "Misc" make sure your dvd device is to set to /dev/hdc for secondard master or to /dev/hdd if it is your secondary slave.

also, you have to enable dma
add this line to your /etc/modules.conf

options ide-cd dma=1

also try gmplayer to open your dvd's instead of just mplayer in the term, ie:

gmplayer -DVD 1