CD/DVD Drive sees content but doesn't access it...

[FenrirTWolf]

Hello, all.

Got a problem that baffles me. Hence this question.

On Fedora Core 10, I have a CD/DVD drive that registers the name of whatever the CD/DVD has, which tells me that there isn't a problem with the drive itself. But when I try to open the content, the system tells me it's unmountable, or can't access it, giving me nowhere to go. dmesg doesn't say anything, although when I try to put in a written DVD, the system doesn't do anything for approx. 20 seconds, then comes up with the message "You have just inserted a blank DVD," then gives me a list of choices of what to do with my written blank(?) DVD.

VLC Player doesn't have a problem playing audio/music from the system, which leaves me with questions about whether VLC can't play video for some reason. Which seems unlikely, because it can play other videos on it, aside from what seems to be a codec problem with playing audio for .3gp videos.

Anyone have any ideas?

[whych]

Does this happen with all media - data as well as dvd movies?
If it's only a multimedia/restricted format problem, first install the missing support files and try again.

Generally though, even if it's multimedia, you should at least be able to read the contents of the drive.

Try creating a mount point, /media/dvd say, and mounting the drive as root (mount -t /dev/(drive-name) /media/dvd , where dvd-name is usually sr0 or some such).
If this works, check your account prmissions and make sure you are a member of cdrom group.

If this doesn't work, try adding a line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0