[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD player

[David Ross]

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39 am, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 10:23, clayramsey1 at comcast.net wrote:
> > I finally got a DVD drive for my latitude cpi laptop... it was seen and
> > loaded aok.  Fedora Core 2, BTW.
> >
> > I rpm --installed the rpms for the ogle player, but it "sorta" loads, and
> > when I try to run /mnt/cdrom/VIDEO-TS (I think)/any subfile, the player
> > terminates abruptly.
> >
> > 1) I don't have a /dev/dvd or anything like that.  Just /mnt/cdrom.  I
> > think THAT is a big part of the problem.  Remedy?
> >
> > 2) Are there any conf files / settings I need to alter?  The Norwegian
> > source / home for the Ogle player (supposed to be well-regarded, per
> > Google) indicated this, but if you were building / compiling.
> >
> > So. where do I go?
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> I'll have to check my system when I get home.
>
> I recall that I made a symbolic link for /dev/dvd to the
> real /dev/hdd drive. /dev/dvd was just the 'default' for
> some dvd apps... it's not a hard-requirement.
>

$ls -l /dev/dvd         /dev/dvd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
I used source for the whole install.Never could get RPM dependencies right.

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