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From: Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:15:23
Message-Id: pan.2006.03.04.19.09.51.652498@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] tcprobe: no support for DVD reading by Wes Gray
1 On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:34:09 -0800, Wes Gray wrote:
2
3 > Any idea why my tcprobe isn't supporting dvd reading? I have libdvdread
4 > installed:
5 >
6 > # tcprobe -H 10 -i /dev/dvd
7 > (dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit.
8 > (iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/dvd"
9 >
10 > # emerge -p libdvdread
11 >
12 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
13 >
14 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
15 > [ebuild R ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4-r1
16 > #
17 >
18 > Do I need to do something special to the transcode compile options?
19
20 1) Try as root. Some programs like cdrecord-ProDVD simply won't work on
21 some devices unless you're root or sudo root.
22
23 2) Make sure /dev/dvd actually points to your device.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading Wes Gray <smiths@×××××××××××××××.edu>