Hello, When attempting to play DVD's in mplayer as a regular user in Linux I am confronted with the following message: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MPlayer dev-SVN-r26753-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE Playing dvd://mnt/cdrom. The hostname option must be an integer: mnt Struct dvd, field hostname parsing error: mnt Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part. Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (Permission denied) No stream found to handle url dvd://mnt/cdrom Exiting... (End of file) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- However, when playing under the root user account everything works fine. Any ideas? -- Regards, Christopher Koeber