Ok folks so either I'm complete mad or this damned mplayer is making me hear things. I swear the damned thing played for a few minutes, but now I get them same error message I was getting before. Now why would it work once and not again and continuing to complain about not being able to open the dvd device. Doesn't matter what I specify on the commandline or if I'm root or not. This really is driving me completely mad. Scott
