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    Auto mount/play DVDs

    I have set up in Control Center/Peripherals/Storage Media an automatic action for DVDs.  It doesn't appear to work, however.  When I insert a DVD expecting it to auto-play, I get the following message:

    /media/cdrom0 is a folder, but a file was expected.
    The command I'm using for auto-play is this:

    Code:
    wxvlc dvd:///dev/hdc
    When I use that same command in a terminal, it works exactly as expected.

    What gives?  Thanks in advance.

    --chriscrutch

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    Re: Auto mount/play DVDs

    I too had this same problem. Finally, after many tries, VLC now plays my DVD's when inserted but it's not very intuitive.
    I was configuring the KDE daemon to play DVD's (just as you did) and finally realized that the drive containing the disk was not passed to VLC! Since my laptop has a (flaky) internal and an external DVD I needed to explicitly pass the correct drive to VLC. Here's what worked for me:
    Internal:
    Code:
    wxvlc dvd:///dev/scd0 %u
    External:
    Code:
    wxvlc dvd:///dev/scd1 %u
    For what it's worth: I'm using Feisty so I do not know if that makes any difference.
    It should be possible to auto detect the drive and pass that to VLC but I have no idea how. Anyone care to shed some light on this?

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