Auto mount/play DVDs

[chriscrutch]

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:

wxvlc dvd:///dev/hdc

When I use that same command in a terminal, it works exactly as expected.

What gives?  Thanks in advance.

--chriscrutch

[birk]

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:

wxvlc dvd:///dev/scd0 %u

External:

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?