DVD-ROM help (mounting)

[coolego1]

As I am a newbie to Linux (relatively speaking), I have very little experience in working with mount and fstab
I am hopelessly lost as to how to mount my DVD drive as /dev/dvd instead of /dev/cdrom... My media player (kaffiene) will not read (video) DVDs unless they are mounted at /dev/dvd. However, I can access the drive itself and view files on it.

My fstab is as follows:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

where /dev/cdrom is the DVD drive with a physical address of /dev/hdc. The other cd drive is a CD Burner mounted at the physical address /dev/scd0.

Thanks

[miner]

in mplayer i changed my dvd device path from /dev/dvd to /mnt/cdrom and now i can watch dvd's. can you change the dvd device setting/preference anywhere in kaffiene.

[XiaoKJ]

please clarify: is Kaffiene unable to read DVDs when it is not mounted as /dev/dvd or /mnt/dvd.

fstab is a file configuration to make devices mount as filesystems. /dev means devices and /mnt means it is probably filesystems.

I would check out the help file library in this very website before posting comments. I think you may need help mounting it as /dev/dvd becos it is not a filesystem. maybe you can just try out adding this line to fstab:

/dev/cdrom /dev/dvd noauto user, defaults 0 0

it may not work for i have not tried it.