dvd and dvd-r(w)

[Guest]

hi sorry but ive been playing with this now for about a month now followed every how to i can find and nothing seems to work. i have a sarge install with kernel 2.6.8 and i cant get the dvdrom to play dvds or the dvd-r to work either both work fine under windows. my fstab shows both drives as cdrom and cdrom1 could this be the course of my troubles? or could some one point me in the direction of a how to or an fstab that works with dvd dvd-r? oh ye its a standard kernel from debian, and iam running kde. would a distro-upgrade help? its a philips dvdrom and a tosiba dvd-r

[lacek]

What do you mean "don't work"? Can you mount them? If so, what program do you try to play DVDs with? What program do you try to write DVDs with?
Or you don't know what programs to use for these tasks?

[manny]

Well i was an ubuntu user before coming to debian, and since it's based on debian, most of this guide has helped me a lot. Look for How to install DVD playback capability? in http://ubuntuguide.org/ It would help to add

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deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get some things. Hope it helps

[Guest]

thanks for trying to help me ive been trying to use mplayer to play and acidrip and dvdbackup to try the dvd-rw but they all say faulty disk but disks are fine. i can mount and look at the files on the disk but thats it.

[manny]

Have you tried using Totem for dvds? must be already installed under "multimedia"
For dvd-rw try k3b

[dawgie]

Vlc is the easiest prog to set for playing DVDs.
# apt-get install vlc

[Guest]

i have tryed totem it played the intro screen (universal globe thing) then stoped and would play any more. have tryed vlc and gives same error as mplayer faulty disk, but the disks are fine.

i will have another look at it though and look at k3b. thanks for help. i dont spose someone who has dvd playback and dvd copying setup could post a list of progs that are needed so i can check i havnt missed anything please ? and do you use a standard fstab or have you made any chances?

thanks for every ones help

[manny]

hmm... maybe check the section How to speed up CD/DVD-ROM? to add dma = on from the ubuntuguide posted above.
I don't know if it helps, here's my fstab, i only added 2 windows partitions and another ide drive.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda8       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda6       /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda9       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda7       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /media/windowsC  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0
/dev/hda5       /media/unidadD  vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000   0       0
/dev/hdb5       /media/maxtor  vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000   0       0

[anon]

looking at what i have installed I have libdvdcss and libdvdread from marillats repository.

[jsawyer]

I have a similar but different issue. I am running a hybrid of etch/sid with the 2.6 kernel. When I try to burn a DVD ISO using gnomebaker it doesn't recognize my blank dvd. When trying to use K3b it just freezes up when "scanning for cd devises".