On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since nobody seemed to report a problem playing DVDs, I decided to check my
> settings.
>
> Smplayer and Gmplayer were both set to play DVDs from /dev/dvd
>
> I checked and there was no /dev/dvd. So, I did:
>
> ls -l /dev/dvd*
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvd1 -> sr0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-24 12:52 /dev/dvdrw1 -> sr0
>

I have changed nothing and my output is
[mike@home1 ~]$ ls -l /dev/dvd*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-19 19:05 /dev/dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2010-03-19 19:05 /dev/dvdrw -> sr0

So maybe yours is a special case?