I don’t know if this is a part of this bug (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408252) basically incorrect ACLs for devices, but I can’t get my dvd driver to play in KDE. I have updated my Xine to the one from packman and installed libdvdcss from VLC repo. I also added myself to the cdrom group, was already a part of video, but after logging out and back in no change. Dragon Player just says that there is not media present when I tell it to play the DVD, and Kaffeine from KDE 3 says that there is no device called /dev/dvd on my system, any help?
Also add yourself to group “disk” … There are more work arounds listed here which may or may not be necessary. Solved : K3b Problem with Normal User on openSUSE 11.1 | Spirit of Change
What does ll /dev/sr0 report? Mine for reference:
dean@linux:~> ll /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2009-01-04 20:43 /dev/sr0
As you can see, group disk is assigned. Some users have reassigned the dvd drive via custom udev rule to cdrom group as outlined here:
http://stolowski.blogspot.com/2008/12/cddvd-burning-broken-in-opensuse-111.html
Here is my output of ll /dev/sr0:
vendion@Big-O:~> ll /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2009-01-02 18:12 /dev/sr0
Will post back if added myself to the disk group helps
The disk group did the trick, DVD playback works thanks Oldcpu 
The disk group is assigned by default, but some gurus (like ken_yap) have suggested this could be bad practice because of the low-level access it gives to all disks, and instead you should set up a ‘cdrom’ group. But it works for most… 