A DVD player....

[TheMatrix]

This has been driving me insane today.

So I was looking for a DVD player for Linux.
It just needs to be able to play a DVD from /dev/sr1(see below for explanation). It also needs to work with SuSE 11.4.
I've tried "xine", but that gave an error message about some kind of block error.(I forget what)

Or, I could play the DVD on my wonderful laptop, but I have an issue: No DVD drive!
So my Dad suggested using Samba and then mounting the DVD drive on my Linux box to Windows.
But I don't know how to use Samba(and the documentation was of little help), so nothing really works.
Another issue is that the mount point of the DVD drive changes accordingly with the title of the DVD. So if that didn't happen, I should be able to mount the drive on Windows as \\192.168.1.14\media\dvd or something and on Windows it becomes Z:\?

I am using openSuSE 11.4(i586) and Windows 7 Home Premium(x86_64).
Help? :confused:

And now the explanation of /dev/sr1:
That is a reference to a location on the computer. I suppose you could compare it with the drive letter of your DVD drive(probably D:\). On other *nix machines, it could be /dev/dvd, or /dev/dvdrom, or almost anything!

[ethanf93]

VLC should work. If Xine gave a Block error that could be a problem with the disk/controller/you don't have libdvdcss (maybe?)

I don't think that Samba would work very well here. I think most programs (other than VLC anyways) would balk at not having proper access to the drive, but then again I've never tried.

[TheMatrix]

Well, I've got it basically figured out. The errors were the result of sloppy coding on the developers' part. I'm pretty sure that they were looking for /dev/dvd, whereas my DVD drive actually resides at /dev/sr1.
I typed:
ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/sr1
and all was good.

For gxine, at least. I haven't tried VLC again yet.

So this is all done.
Thanks, though. :)

[1_21Guns]

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