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Old 7th September 2010
st89 st89 is offline
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Default Playing DVDs

I gathered from OpenBSD Faq 13.9 (can't post link) that it's possible to play DVDs, with or without mounting them. When I do
Code:
$ xine /dev/cd0c
I get
Quote:
- xine engine error -

Input plugin failed to open mrl'/dev/cd0c'
and behind that another message saying
Quote:
"sight", unknown error. (Permission error /dev/cd0c)
I then do
Code:
$ sudo chmod a+r /dev/cd0c
which takes away the second permission-related message but still leaves the first. I then do
Code:
$ sudo mount /dev/cd0c /mnt/dvd;
$ xine /mnt/dvd
and can hear the DVD drive whirring and reading the disc before getting
Quote:
- xine engine error -

Input plugin failed to open mrl
'mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB'
...which leads to Xine hanging up and requiring killing.

I have similar problems when trying to use dvdrip in that mounting works but reading directly from the DVD drive doesn't. Does anyone know of any resources to get 'raw' (i.e. no need to mount) DVD playback/ripping working? Thanks in advance for any help/tips/pointers
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