DVDs won't play

[Temlakos]

On 02/18/2013 06:31 AM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Or, add a /dev/dvd that points to /dev/sr0, then all DVD supporting
>>> software works in the way that you expect it to.
> Ed Greshko:
>> Of course, since the /dev directory is not permanent and gets created
>> at boot time you'll need to do it in such a way that it gets
>> re-created at boot time.
> Naturally.
>
> In my opinion, this should have been done during install.  It *should*
> be *well* known that many applications that use the DVD expect to
> find /dev/dvd to work with, and the device should have been created.  It
> is bad form to expect all those applications to change from working in a
> logical manner to having to use some random device name.  Not to mention
> completely unnecessary to force the user to have to resolve it, *it* is
> the computer, *it* is supposed to do the work for you.
>

Thank you all for your advice.

Putting in /dev/sr0 did solve the problem--though I wonder why the 
program offered a bunch of options, in the form /dev/sg?, none of which 
were acceptable. But at least now that I have done it once, the 
application will remember it for next time.

By the way, Tim, I agree: someone on the development team ought to 
anticipate things like this. If this distribution hopes to gain more 
followers, then at least make sure your applications get started, so 
that people will find out whether they will break or not.

Temlakos