playing DVD with combo drive

[fredex]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:00:04AM +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> ashwin kesavan iyengar kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika 
> sunnuntai, 31. lokakuuta 2004 21:06):
> >      I downloaded xine player. It works fine with VCD but says
> > error when DVD is played(something like drive not found). My
> > DVD drive is actually a combo drive(CD-R,RW,ROM,DVD-ROM). My
> > combo drive is LG-GCC-4521B. It is able to show the contents
> > of the dvd. There was no /dev/dvd file in the /dev. The combo
> > drive is indicated by cd-rom1. I hav another cd-rom drive
> > which is shown as cd-rom. The combo drive is shown as
> > /dev/hdc. how to play dvd with xine.
> 
> Create the /dev/dvd symlink:
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> 
> I have a LG-4120B combo drive and it works fine with Xine.
> 

Playing dvds with xine works fine for me, but I had to go find 
and install the following RPMs to achieve that:

libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3
libdvdplay-1.0.1-fr2
libdvdnav-0.1.9-1.fr
libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr

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