I'm running CentOS 3 and have just installed a Liteon lightscribe DVD/CD unit. I firstly realized I didn't know exactly how to mount it, as /dev/dvd didn't exist, I didn't want to generate anything if it already existed, and I didn't want to mess up my cdrom unit that works just fine. I mounted the device though the X window just to see how it might mount, and find that it mounts /dev/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1, regardless of what type media is in the drive. Does this sound proper? Should I mknod(?) something for the /dev/dvd device and if so, what should be the parms? I then tried to find a movie viewer on the machine, and only found mplayer. I couldn't get it to work properly due to the configuration options (not a very powerful machine). What does anyone use for a DVD viewer? And lastly, what are recommendations for implementing the lightscribe functions that exist on the drive? Any help is very graciously appreciated. Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com Charleston Newspapers
Steve Campbell spake the following on 3/1/2007 7:56 AM:> I'm running CentOS 3 and have just installed a Liteon lightscribe DVD/CD > unit. I firstly realized I didn't know exactly how to mount it, as > /dev/dvd didn't exist, I didn't want to generate anything if it already > existed, and I didn't want to mess up my cdrom unit that works just fine. > > I mounted the device though the X window just to see how it might mount, > and find that it mounts /dev/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1, regardless of what > type media is in the drive. Does this sound proper? Should I mknod(?) > something for the /dev/dvd device and if so, what should be the parms? > > I then tried to find a movie viewer on the machine, and only found > mplayer. I couldn't get it to work properly due to the configuration > options (not a very powerful machine). What does anyone use for a DVD > viewer? > > And lastly, what are recommendations for implementing the lightscribe > functions that exist on the drive? > > Any help is very graciously appreciated. > > Steve Campbell > campbell at cnpapers.com > Charleston Newspapers/dev/cdrom(1) seems to be standard, but look at the dvd howto for help ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/ ). I am not sure if CentOS will have any DVD playing capability without an outside repo (licensing issues from RedHat). Look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/63953-how-play-dvds.html As for the Lightscribe, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:56:48AM -0500, Steve Campbell wrote:> I mounted the device though the X window just to see how it might mount, > and find that it mounts /dev/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1, regardless of what type > media is in the drive. Does this sound proper? Should I mknod(?) something > for the /dev/dvd device and if so, what should be the parms?Sounds about right. The name of the "pseudo device" (link) doesn't really matter. You can call it /dev/ItsiBitsi and it will still work.> I then tried to find a movie viewer on the machine, and only found mplayer. > I couldn't get it to work properly due to the configuration options (not a > very powerful machine). What does anyone use for a DVD viewer?The "easiest" to use would be Xine, I suppose. It should be avaliable on RPMforge (or directly on dag's repository, see dag.wieers.com/packages).> And lastly, what are recommendations for implementing the lightscribe > functions that exist on the drive?Have no idea what that is, sorry. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5yBIpdyWzQ5b5ckRAvyaAKCMPWvSTu3m9KP035DzQxzK+RvdvgCeJB/Z /r+f4HXXDU4X498DqlR3S3A=NRrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----