[SOLVED] can't get mythdvd to work.

**fusion_05** · October 24th, 2007

I'm kind of clueless when it comes to this. I've got mythbuntu control center installed, and I've got dvd's playing in VLC just fine, and I've downloaded the mythdvd plugin with the mythbuntu control center. However, when I go into the mythdvd, I select play dvd and the screen just flashes. I'm not sure what I'm missing. I would really appreciate some help.

**tgm4883** · October 24th, 2007

Sounds like mythtv isn't pointed to the dvd drive.

Check the setup in Mythdvd settings

**fusion_05** · October 24th, 2007

For location of the DVD device it says /dev/dvd. I've got a cd-rw drive and a dvd-rw drive, and that sounds right to me. How do I figure out what the location of my dvd drive is?

EDIT: I looked at the device location under places>computer, and it says the location is computer:/// is that right?

**superm1** · October 24th, 2007

Well look in /dev

You can have anything ranging from a /dev/dvd, /dev/dvdrw, /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvdrw1

See what the right name is for you.

**Meph1st0** · October 24th, 2007

My memorex dvd-rw dl is apparently /dev/scd0. Is this normal?

I've sort of had a hard time getting MythDVD working correctly as well. VLC plays my DVDs just fine if I have it play /dvd/scd0. But in Mythbuntu it'll open the disk and start playing but it's choppy and unstable. It's crashed on me twice now. It's using the Internal command to play DVDs. Should I change this?

I've got xine, mplayer and vlc selected and installed in MCC. Some people have suggested xine but I've never had much success with xine. But I do want to have access to DVD menus and I've heard mplayer won't do dvd menus.

Is there a VLC command I could use instead? I imagine I'd need to modify my lircrc to include VLC with my remote.

libdvdcss is installed as well if that matters.

**fusion_05** · October 24th, 2007

Originally Posted by superm1

Well look in /dev

You can have anything ranging from a /dev/dvd, /dev/dvdrw, /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvdrw1

See what the right name is for you.

I'll try this out when I get home, right now I'm at work, I'll be back home in a few hours.

**superm1** · October 24th, 2007

Originally Posted by Meph1st0

My memorex dvd-rw dl is apparently /dev/scd0. Is this normal?

I've sort of had a hard time getting MythDVD working correctly as well. VLC plays my DVDs just fine if I have it play /dvd/scd0. But in Mythbuntu it'll open the disk and start playing but it's choppy and unstable. It's crashed on me twice now. It's using the Internal command to play DVDs. Should I change this?

I've got xine, mplayer and vlc selected and installed in MCC. Some people have suggested xine but I've never had much success with xine. But I do want to have access to DVD menus and I've heard mplayer won't do dvd menus.

Is there a VLC command I could use instead? I imagine I'd need to modify my lircrc to include VLC with my remote.

libdvdcss is installed as well if that matters.

Yeah you can set an external player such as vlc. Its in the mythdvd options.