DVD play broken in "vlc"

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bdimitrov : 18/11/01 06:50 AM : Incident created

- Asking "vlc" to open and play "/dev/dvd" produces no results.

I can mount "/dev/dvd" as a UDF filesystem. I can play a DVD in Windows.
But I cannot play a DVD with "vlc".

I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell laptop (Inspirion 8100), with the following packages installed:

vlc-ncurses-0.2.83-1mdk

vlc-qt-0.2.83-1mdk

vlc-0.2.83-1mdk

vlc-gnome-0.2.83-1mdk

vlc-gtk-0.2.83-1mdk

On my system, "/dev/dvd" is a symbolic link to "/dev/cdroms/cdrom2", a block special device (11/0).

What is wrong with my "vlc"?

	Linegod_7611 : 19/11/01 04:49 AM : Reply received
	- I have never been able to get vlc to work on any of my boxes. I would try Ogle - http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml . There is no gui interface, but it does work quite well.

	bdimitrov : 19/11/01 07:07 AM : Incident closed
	- I could not get "vlc" to play a DVD. Expert "linegod" suggested that I install "ogle". After installing "ogle" with the optional "libdvdcss" component, I was able to play DVDs. Recommendation for Mandrake maintainers: include "ogle" in the distribution; in the description of "vlc" say that it will EVENTUALLY be able to play DVDs (as it currently cannot).