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mount and play DVD
  • I hope you can help me here. I have just come to play my first DVD in SliTaz, and its not working for me. When I try to mount it from openbox I get

    'error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure'
    'Directory doesnt exist!'

    I have tried manually mounting, 'mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom' which does mount the disk, but it still wont play. In VLC I get the error

    'Playback failure:
    DVDRead could not read block 0.

    I also tried copying the files from dvd to my home directory, and playing it there, the files copy, but VLC just freezes up. I have tried xine, mplayer, smplayer, they all do the same thing.

    Thanks for any help!

    Edit: when insert a data DVD, the dvd doesnt show up at all in openbox, and will not mount manually either. no idea why this is. slitaz install from dvd, (i had no cds handy) so i know the drive works...

    More information:
    kernel:- vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz

    machine:- Dell latitude C840

    #root@froodem: /home/roo# wodim -scanbus
    scsibus1000:
    1000,0,0 100000) *
    1000,1,0 100001) 'MATISHA' 'CDRW/DVD UJDA740' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
    1000,2,0 100002) *
    1000,3,0 100003) *
    1000,4,0 100004) *
    1000,5,0 100005) *
    1000,6,0 100006) *
    1000,7,0 100007) *

    My fstab file:-
    # /etc/fstab: Information about static filesystems.
    #
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
    tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
    #/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
    #/dev/hdb1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
    /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 user,ro,noauto 0 0
    /dev/hda3 swap swap default 0 0
  • mojomojo June 2010
    These wodim commands will give the symlink /dev name of your drive
    tux@slitaz: wodim  --devices

    tux@slitaz: wodim  scanbus

    From that test I determined my drive was /dev/scd0
    Start VLC with unencrypted DVD from terminal
    tux@slitaz: vlc /dev/scd0

    I got this error.
    access_file access error: cannot open file /dev/scd0 (Permission denied)
    [00000374] main input error: open of `/dev/scd0' failed: could not create access
    Check permissions:
    ls -la /dev/scd0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 21 2009 /dev/scd0 -> sr0

    /dev/scd0 has full permissions for everyone but is a symlink that points to /dev/sr0 which did not.
    ls -la /dev/scd0
    brw------- 1 root root 11, 0 Nov 12 2009 /dev/sr0

    root@slitaz:chmod 666 /dev/sr0

    brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      11,   0 Jun 28 18:23 /dev/sr0

    While this fixed mine your problem may be different.
  • hit it! Thankyou ever so much!!! Now it works!

    Roob
  • ok... is there any way of making the permissions permanent?

    each time i reboot i have to change them to 666 again.

    Thanks
    Roob
  • mojomojo June 2010
    This is from a full install fresh reboot.
    tux@slitaz:~$ ls -la /dev/sr0
    brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 29 13:12 /dev/sr0

    cdrom group has permission to read/write to device
    Add regular user to the cdrom group and he inherits the permissions of cdrom.
    root@slitaz:addgroup tux cdrom


  • ApteryxApteryx July 2010
    For a reason I ignore, my DVD was not identified by /dev/sr0 but rather /dev/hdc. Also, doing a "ls -la /dev/hdc" showed that the group associated to this device was "disk" rather than "device". So the last command for me was:
    root@slitaz: addgroup $USER disk
  • SliChrisSliChris October 2010
    When I did : addgroup $USER disk
    the system returned : addgroup: permission denied (are you root?)
    And even under root, the problem remained.
    Then I : chown tux /dev/hdc
    and everything went well for me.
  • SliChrisSliChris October 2010
    Now even with write permission, burnbox refuses to burn a 467Mo iso file.
    A window appears, but to fast to see what message it says.
    I don't what to do.
  • SliChrisSliChris October 2010
    Ok, the message was 'error syntax : operation terminated'
    Then I quoted ("...") the adress of the iso.
    It already finished doing it.

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