Play DVD (solved)

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 19:36:10 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:57 -0500, Don Vogt wrote:
> >> I have had this, or a similar problem, with fc14. My  problem is
> that the
> dvd playing program (I believe it is XINE) says it can't
> find /dev/dvd. That
> is because there is no /dev/dvd. My fix is to open mc go to /dev and
> copy
> dvd1 to dvd. I tried to use a command line and run
> "cp /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvd",
> but that didn't work. I don't know why, I probably need a switch. I
> hope
> this helps.

That means "copy the entire contents of whatever is in /dev/dvd1 into a
file named /dev/dvd", so it's hardly surprising that it doesn't do what
you want.

poc



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