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On 06/11/13 01:05, bad apple wrote:
Zero mention of anything related to the DVD drive in dmesg. I've tried with one data disc I burned myself - the Mint 15 disk, not a flicker and nothing in dmesg.. the last entry is about my USB mouse.On 06/11/13 00:38, Julian Hall wrote:Yes that makes perfect sense. I haven't tried data DVDs to be honest, all the DVDs thus far have been movies. As you mentioned libdvdcss it's highlighted that perhaps I haven't been clear enough describing the problem as I've been fixated on the mount issue. Once the DVD mounts it plays perfectly well in VLC Media Player. To answer the second part of the question, tonight for instance I rebooted Mint three times with the same disk in the drive and only on this last attempt did the DVD mount. So the first case is true, sometimes it mounts and sometimes not - it is not disk specific. Also it will only mount if a disk is in the drive at boot, and will not auto-detect if a disk is inserted when the system is already running. I may have confused the issue mentioning BluRay, I was simply referring to the drive model not the disks in use - I don't have any actual BluRay disks yet. All disks I have tried so far have been standard definition DVDs. IIRC I mentioned the drive type as I was curious if it might be some kind of compatibility issue.Interesting. First, grab a couple of known-good data DVDs, preferably ones you've burnt yourself, and stick them in, and see what happens. When I say "see what happens", I mean apart from waiting for the icon to hopefully appear on your desktop and in Nemo, more importantly run "dmesg" in a terminal and check the last few lines where there should be obvious DVD-related information. Post them here if you're not sure how to interpret them. Repeat this a couple of times with a couple of your film DVDs as well, checking dmesg every time.
Other things that may be going wrong: 1: screwed up udev rules
How would I check those please?
Once the drive mounts DVDs play flawlessly, plus as per below data disks won't mount either.2: libdvdcss2 not actually as installed as you think it may be*
3: strange group/permission settings (are you in cdrom/plugdev?)
julian@Cerce ~ $ groups julian adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare I do seem to be in both.
Would that not give a permanent problem rather than what appears to be (but probably isn't) random?4: problems relating to region settings on your DVD/bluray unit
It would definitely be worth testing that you can always manually mount disks of any kind first, to rule out deeper errors. If you have issues with this, the problems are deeper than automount being broken. I'm sure you know how, but to be on the safe side: sudo mkdir /mnt/dvd-test sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd-test Your unit might not actually be /dev/sr0, but probably is. It's almost undoubtedly linked to /dev/cdrom.
julian@Cerce ~ $ sudo mkdir /mnt/dvd-test [sudo] password for julian: julian@Cerce ~ $ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd-test mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist julian@Cerce ~ $When I replied last night - and in fact every other time it /has/ mounted, I've looked in /dev and sr0 has been there, but not when it doesn't, so you're right it should be /dev/sr0.
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