Can't access DVD -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 02/03/12 09:27, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 08:55 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>         I suppose I should know by know but ...
>>
>>         Do I need an entry in /etc/fstab for an optical disk drive? If
>>         so what should it be?
>>
>>         I viewed some lectures on line, bought the download actually but
>>         decided would eat up more of my bandwidth allotment for the
>>         month than I could afford and had them send me some DVD's
>>         instead. Then to my surprise my F-16/64 installations wont play
>>         them although they looked fine from the download site.
>>
>>         When I put a "movie" dvd in the drive an icon pops up normally
>>         but ls /media appears to be empty:
>>
>>             [bobg at box6 ~]$ ll /media
>>             total 0
>>
>>         Should I not see something like /media/cdrom ? The disk I am
>>         testing with has always worked on earlier Fedora's. Admittedly I
>>         rarely do anything with dvd's but when I have needed to I have
>>         been able to play and record, in most cases data. Now as far as
>>         VLC and Parole it is like there's no drive installed?
>>
>>         I need help troubleshooting.
>>
>>
> I'm using KDE, so my view may vary slightly from what you see.....
>
> When I pop in a DVD, Arsenic and Old Lace, the "Device Notifier" pops up
> giving 6 potential actions.  I don't want to do any of them so I ignore
> it.  The device is not mounted so there is nothing in /media.
>
> I bring up SMPlayer and pick "Open from Disc" and the movie is played.
> The program is reading directly from the /dev/dvd device which is a
> symlink to /dev/sr0 which is the block device for the drive.

        Ok Ed, that's what I needed!

            [root at box6 bobg]# ll /dev/sr1
            brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 Mar  2 04:35 /dev/sr1

        There's that "+" again, the same problem I am having with
        devices connected to USB like my scanners, and the digital
        camera. Apparently a problem unique to the Fedora 16 XFCE Live
        Spin from which I have installed both systems.

        I put bobg in the cdrom group, not sure if that helps but doing:

            [root at box6 bobg]# ll /dev/sr1
            brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 Mar  2 04:35 /dev/sr1

        Gets the movie running in VLC.

        Thanks,

        Bob