/dev/dvd not recognized o_o;;

BlueCrystal · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

i kinda figured out why mencoder doesnt work ><;;
its because /dev/dvd wasnt installed or set or something..
i kno that there is a dvd drive but its cd/dvd so everytime i try to run mencoder it
<code> mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1-oac copy -o movie.avi </code>
but it cant find the dvd:
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
Cannot open file/device
Exiting...
bash-2.05b#

so is there a way to set up so /dev/dvd is recognized?

chunderbunny · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject:

You have three choices: either edit the udev configs so that it creates a /dev/dvd symlink, upgrade to the ~arch version of udev (which I think does this anyway) or specify the location of your dvd drive to mencoder. If mencoder workd anything like mplayer then you need to use the option --dvd-device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (replace cdrom0 with cdrom1 if this is not the correct device name.)

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

My dvd drive is /dev/hdc. So, I could do a #ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd.
That would give any program that wants a /dev/dvd something to do.