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into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Sunday 05 November 2006 9:18 pm, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
Would that also be true for a USB connected external DVD burner drive? If yes then what device would I find it under in My Computer? Where would I find it in YAST?
in your "my computer" folder and using Suse , any version that I can recall.. the dvd or cd player or burner doesn't appear unless you have a disk in the drive, at which time you will notice it, as it will look like some iconic representation of a cd or dvd.. Suse shows your media drivers in the /media directory, and , of course also in the /dev directory, but if you wish just to see if it's recognised, look in media , it will be called something like cd or dvd recorder (assuming you have a recorder rather than just a player cd is usually called cdrecorder and the dvd is dvdrecorder, oddly enough. ;) that is all that needs to be done since 9.1 on.. nothing in yast or anywhere else. You can record data as well as multimedia , even video there is a Divx for Linux as well as emovix ( all purpose video player you can put in a disc w/ lots and lots of movie clips, if you have a capture card... ) You need to get lame or use Real Player for mp3 , Kaffeine will play mpegs and Divx IIRC you need to locate libdvdcss *or* use a ful copy of Mplayer to decode movie dvds to watch on your computer. Hope this helps, or gives you a few places to look for more info.. -- j See ya Space Cowboy