Hi,
I just installed openSUSE 11.1 and have everything configured. But using smplayer, I can only open a movie DVD when I’ve launched smplayer as root. When I launch smplayer as a regular user and then try to open the DVD from the drive, nothing happens.
There is probably a simple solution to this, but I haven’t figured it out yet, and a Google search didn’t provide answers.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Wade
I couldn’t even play DVDs until I saw this thread, so thanks for the tip.
At first I couldn’t even get playback, but at least now I have a way to do this. Even still, it would be nice to be able to play as standard users.
Same here 
You need to install decode pack and put them into /usr/local/lib/win32 .
are you a member of the cdrom group? this has been an issue for other users.
what is the output of
groups
as your normal user?
doss
I wasn’t.
I add myself to the cdrom group but the issue still the same.
groups
users dialout cdrom video
Maybe a hint on the issue, the directory in /media/<dvd> is mounted with unknown group while a cdrom and other media is mounted as root group…
It isn’t… on other distros is the same but works as expected
Thanks for getting me on the right track. I opened a console as root, then ran the following command from /usr/lib/:
cp libdvd* /usr/lib/win32/
After rebooting, I could then play DVDs as standard user. Thanks for the help!