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Master of Reality:
if i have my DVD has the master and my CD-RW as a slave. Does the DVD have to work in order to use the CD-RW?

Master of Reality:
its official.. i'm a dumbass.
The DVD that cam with the computer was already hooked up to the IDE cable on the "Master" plug, so i assumed the jumper on the DVD was already on "master". I had both my CD-RW and my DVD set to "slave". I dont think it will work with DVDs yet (its just working as a cdrom), but i havent tried to see.

iancom:
PowerDVD is a DVD player rather than a driver for your DVD drive, as far as I know.

If you've got it working as a CD-ROM, chances are it'll work as a DVD too. Try putting a DVD in, mounting it and then see if you can see any files on the drive. If you can, it's going to work...

I use mplayer (http://freshmeat.net/branches/16871/) which seems to do everything I need and was (as far as I recall) quite easy to install. Just point it at where you mounted the DVD and press play. It does encrypted DVD's and multi-region as well.

Hope you get it working okay!

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by IanC:
PowerDVD is a DVD player rather than a driver for your DVD drive, as far as I know.

If you've got it working as a CD-ROM, chances are it'll work as a DVD too. Try putting a DVD in, mounting it and then see if you can see any files on the drive. If you can, it's going to work...

I use mplayer (http://freshmeat.net/branches/16871/) which seems to do everything I need and was (as far as I recall) quite easy to install. Just point it at where you mounted the DVD and press play. It does encrypted DVD's and multi-region as well.

Hope you get it working okay!
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hmmmm... it would probably help if i could find linux sound drivers for my sound card,.. then i could actually listen to DVD's.

Master of Reality:
i'm kinda of ashamed.. but i put windows on a extra computer i have and used it to run my DVD-ROM and the 30 windows games i have.

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