How to run DVD under Linux
Hello All, I have search around and I cannot figure how to use my new DVD drive under Linux. I have SuSE 7.3 Pro with xine-0.9.4 installed. I have a i810 Celeron mobo w/Celeron 366 CPU and kde 2.2.1 installed. I have an ide CDROM @ /dev/hdb and a 10X DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have put a movie in the DVD drive, but it will not play nor is it recognized under xine. I have put hdd=ide-scsi on the command line and have ide-scsi module installed. The start up messages show the DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have symlinked /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd (or should this be rdvd?). What or where is a step x step to show how to get this running? I am tired of the choppiness of windows PowerDVD 3.0 and am hoping Linux is a better choice for viewing DVD's. Thanks in advance. Keith B.
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:13:32 -0500 kbb0927@cs.com wrote:
Hello All,
I have search around and I cannot figure how to use my new DVD drive under Linux.
I have SuSE 7.3 Pro with xine-0.9.4 installed. I have a i810 Celeron mobo w/Celeron 366 CPU and kde 2.2.1 installed. I have an ide CDROM @ /dev/hdb and a 10X DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have put a movie in the DVD drive, but it will not play nor is it recognized under xine. I have put hdd=ide-scsi on the command line and have ide-scsi module installed. The start up messages show the DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have symlinked /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd (or should this be rdvd?).
What or where is a step x step to show how to get this running? I am tired of the choppiness of windows PowerDVD 3.0 and am hoping Linux is a better choice for viewing DVD's.
Thanks in advance.
Keith B.
You don't need SCSI emulation to play DVDs with your IDE DVD reader. I
suggest you to remove the hdd=ide-scsi from you lilo conf and not to
load the ide-scsi module unless it is needed for a IDE burner.
You can create a symlynk from /dev/rdvd to /dev/raw1 and add "raw
/dev/raw1 /dev/dvd" to your boot.local file and to set DMA on for your
DVD drive with a "hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hdd" on the same file.
HTH, regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet
Hi,
I'm having similar troubles, and I'd like to get in on this. But I'm new to Linux (especially multimedia stuff), so bear with me.
The directions below promise to work for me, but they don't quite. I'm running SuSE 7.1 and have symlinked /dev/hdd as /dev/dvd and /dev/raw1 as /dev/rdvd, then used the raw command as advised (all this as root). After reading the man on raw I have some bare understanding of it, but my first question is, is using a raw device the only way to play a DVD, or just one good way? (Xine doesn't offer any good doc's, so I'm really in the dark.)
After doing all that, I was getting permission errors on both those symlinks, running Xine as myself. su'ed again and added global r/w permissions to /dev/hdd and /dev/raw1 to fix that. Is this a good idea, or not?
Well, that gets me to where I can START to play a DVD. I'll see the first segment (the Dreamworks animation), then it stops, and I can't play anything after that. It sort of locks up in fact, and I end up having to kill the whole program.
Can anyone suggest what I may be missing? Again, I'm not finding any Xine doc's other than a FAQ, a README, and a man page, all of which are very brief and not much good to someone who's never installed a Linux driver. :}
Thanks,
--Jason Van Cleve
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:03:27 +0100
Jean-François Bocquet
You can create a symlynk from /dev/rdvd to /dev/raw1 and add "raw /dev/raw1 /dev/dvd" to your boot.local file and to set DMA on for your DVD drive with a "hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hdd" on the same file.
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