DVD Permission Problems

I’m still looking for an answer to fix the problem I’m having trying to play
DVDs.

I’m running 11.0 with KDE3.5 and have followed all the steps in the 10 point
troubleshooting guide. (See previous thread, DVDs will not play, have
followed 10 point advice post)

When I try to use kaffeine with a commercial DVD, I get a popup saying “The
source can’t be read. Maybe you don’t have enough rights for this, or
source doesn’t contain data (e.g.no disc in drive). (Encrypted or faulty
DVD)”

It makes no difference whether I am in root or normal user.

My DVD drive is /dev/sr0, and it appears there is a link to /dev/dvd.

ls-l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 1 14:22 /dev/dvd -> sr0
linux-30cb:~ # ls-l /dev/sr0
brw-rw-rw-+ 1 root disk 11, 0 Jan 1 14:22 /dev/sr0

I have set my username as a member of disk, video, audio and cdrom groups
but this does not appear to make any difference, either.

Suggestions on where to go next?

Should I set the owner of /dev/sr0 to my username?

Bob.

bob@rsmits.ca

Should I set the owner of /dev/sr0 to my username?

You are on the right lines

DVD & Audio CD cannot play in all multimedia apps. - openSUSE Forums

caf4926 wrote:

>
>> Should I set the owner of /dev/sr0 to my username?
>>
> You are on the right lines
>
> ‘DVD & Audio CD cannot play in all multimedia apps. - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/a6wsjh)
>
>

Sorry, biut I’m using 11.0 and KDE 3. This solution - adding myusername to
cdrom and disk groups doesn’t do anything for me, although it may for 11.1
KDE4 people.

I may have to try that.

Thanks, Bob

bob@rsmits.ca