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Re: [trinity-users] KIOExec error playing DVD

From: Dan Youngquist <dan@...>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:46:41 -0700
No one has any idea about this?  Am I the only one who uses VLC to play DVDs
on Trinity?

On 09/30/2013 04:06 PM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 11:51 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a DVD play in vlc when inserted.  The command line is set
>> to 'vlc /dev/dvd', which works perfectly in XFCE, but in trinity it results
>> in an error box with title 'Error - KIOExec' and contents '/media/cdrom0 is
>> a folder, but a file was expected.'
> 
> The problem seems to be that the DVD isn't getting mounted before VLC tries
> to play it.  When I put in a DVD and the window pops up, if I first
> double-click on the DVD's icon on the desktop to mount it and open it in
> Konqueror, then go back to the window and select 'Open in VLC', then VLC
> opens and plays it without the above error.
> 
> So the question becomes, (a) how do I make it (KIOExec?) mount the DVD
> before VLC tries to play it?  And shouldn't it already do it right, like
> XFCE does?
> 
> By the way, this is on Debian Wheezy.

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