DVD

[Master of Reality]

I have a 12X DVD drive that came with my computer, it has a CD with drivers for Windows on them but i have no idea what type of DVD ROM it is. Is there any generic DVD drivers or something that might work?
It says something about a Cyberlink Power DVD on the CD that has the drivers for it.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[Master of Reality]

nobody knows anything about DVDs?

[Scotty]

I assume that you have installed some linux distro so there should be a link for your player in /dev folder like scd0 or cdrom(x) somesort. Find out if that's the case. If you have installed you system with "pnp os" option disabled in bios settings most distros should be able to find all ide/scsi devices.

if your player (xine for example) won't find /dev/dvd or what-so-ever, make a symlink called dvd that points to your cd/dvd device.

hope that helps..  

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by SingleMalt:
I assume that you have installed some linux distro so there should be a link for your player in /dev folder like scd0 or cdrom(x) somesort. Find out if that's the case. If you have installed you system with "pnp os" option disabled in bios settings most distros should be able to find all ide/scsi devices.

if your player (xine for example) won't find /dev/dvd or what-so-ever, make a symlink called dvd that points to your cd/dvd device.

hope that helps..    

there is 2 links on my desktop that point(mount) either of my CD-ROMs but neither work, because i just installed a DVD player as the master and my CD-RW as a slave, and it doesnt find the DVD.

[Calum]

so what you want to do is mount the DVD drive?
in that case you need to edit your /etc/fstab file to make sure your system knows firstly where the DVD drive is (in /dev/something) and secondly where you want it mounted. Actually you don't need to do that, but it'll save you typing it all in every time you want to mount the drive. Once you have put it into yr /etc/fstab, you can just type "mount /whereveritis/dvdrom", and linux will look in fstab to find out the other details.

if all your other drives are set to mount to /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom et cetera, you will probably want to make the dvd drive go to /mnt/dvdrom for clarity's sake. (i prefer my drives to be /floppy and /dvdrom et cetera) now you will need to mkdir /mnt/dvdrom and then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly. Now, first of course, you will have to find out what your dvdrom is called in /dev

hope that is a start, maybe somebody else can give you more specific info...

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so what you want to do is mount the DVD drive?
in that case you need to edit your /etc/fstab file to make sure your system knows firstly where the DVD drive is (in /dev/something) and secondly where you want it mounted. Actually you don't need to do that, but it'll save you typing it all in every time you want to mount the drive. Once you have put it into yr /etc/fstab, you can just type "mount /whereveritis/dvdrom", and linux will look in fstab to find out the other details.

if all your other drives are set to mount to /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom et cetera, you will probably want to make the dvd drive go to /mnt/dvdrom for clarity's sake. (i prefer my drives to be /floppy and /dvdrom et cetera) now you will need to mkdir /mnt/dvdrom and then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly. Now, first of course, you will have to find out what your dvdrom is called in /dev

hope that is a start, maybe somebody else can give you more specific info...

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

no, linux cant do anything with my DVD drive, because it doesnt have any drivers that will work with it, It cant mount something that it cant run.
And my cdroms dont show up in /dev/ for some reason.

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[Calum]

well in that case you will need to get drivers, surely, did you search on Google using yr model number from yr DVD drive? i am sure somebody else must have got this working...
also, if the links are on the desktop, where did they come from? they must have been detected at some point, which makes me think they must be somewhere in /dev? of course all this is just a guess...

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
well in that case you will need to get drivers, surely, did you search on Google using yr model number from yr DVD drive? i am sure somebody else must have got this working...
also, if the links are on the desktop, where did they come from? they must have been detected at some point, which makes me think they must be somewhere in /dev? of course all this is just a guess...

i just changed all my hardware (except hard drives) so they were my previous drives.
I did search on google, found powerDVDs site, they say it works fine with linux, so i e-mailed them about it.

[Calum]

hmmm, well as always i will be interested in the outcome, only sorry i couldn't help more...

[Master of Reality]

reply from cyberlink:
PowerDVD Linux is not bundled with any distribution. We never release it to
the general public, and to be frank, this project is stopped for the time being.
---
those bastards

[Master of Reality]

if i have my DVD has the master and my CD-RW as a slave. Does the DVD have to work in order to use the CD-RW?

[Master of Reality]

its official.. i'm a dumbass.
The DVD that cam with the computer was already hooked up to the IDE cable on the "Master" plug, so i assumed the jumper on the DVD was already on "master". I had both my CD-RW and my DVD set to "slave". I dont think it will work with DVDs yet (its just working as a cdrom), but i havent tried to see.

[iancom]

PowerDVD is a DVD player rather than a driver for your DVD drive, as far as I know.

If you've got it working as a CD-ROM, chances are it'll work as a DVD too. Try putting a DVD in, mounting it and then see if you can see any files on the drive. If you can, it's going to work...

I use mplayer (http://freshmeat.net/branches/16871/) which seems to do everything I need and was (as far as I recall) quite easy to install. Just point it at where you mounted the DVD and press play. It does encrypted DVD's and multi-region as well.

Hope you get it working okay!

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by IanC:
PowerDVD is a DVD player rather than a driver for your DVD drive, as far as I know.

If you've got it working as a CD-ROM, chances are it'll work as a DVD too. Try putting a DVD in, mounting it and then see if you can see any files on the drive. If you can, it's going to work...

I use mplayer (http://freshmeat.net/branches/16871/) which seems to do everything I need and was (as far as I recall) quite easy to install. Just point it at where you mounted the DVD and press play. It does encrypted DVD's and multi-region as well.

Hope you get it working okay!

hmmmm... it would probably help if i could find linux sound drivers for my sound card,.. then i could actually listen to DVD's.

[Master of Reality]

i'm kinda of ashamed.. but i put windows on a extra computer i have and used it to run my DVD-ROM and the 30 windows games i have.