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Re: [trinity-users] KIOExec error playing DVD

From: Curt Howland <Howland@...>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:47:50 -0400
When I put in a DVD it automounts.

It's not that I don't do what you're doing, I just don't have the same problem.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Dan Youngquist
<dan@...> wrote:
> 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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