Hello,
I just installed Fedora 18. Then I went and got "EasyLife", which has a bunch of codecs. I installed them. Now, when I insert a DVD in the drive, I get a little box that asks me to choose 1 of 6 actions, one of which is to open the Dragon video player.

I do so, and I click on Play Media, Play Disk, and nothing happens. I don't see the disk in the window, there's just an empty white space.

What do I need to do to get this to work? Here are the values of some of my libraries:
# rpm -qa | egrep "libdvdcss|gstreamer|phonon"
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.23-1.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.7-1.fc18.x86_64
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.6-1.fc18.x86_64
phonon-4.6.0-5.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-espeak-0.4.0-1.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
libdvdcss-1.2.11-6.fc18.x86_64
qt-gstreamer-0.10.2-2.fc18.x86_64
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.3-1.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer1-1.0.3-1.fc18.x86_64
libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.3-1.fc18.x86_64

# rpm -qa | egrep -i dragon
dragon-4.9.4-1.fc18.x86_64

Here is an example of the kde software versions that I have:
kde-workspace-4.10.2-8.fc18.x86_64
kde-runtime-4.10.2-1.fc18.x86_64

Thanks.

can you try running it from Konsole and then post the output here (please use the code tag)

Thanks for the reply. Looks like /dev/dvd did not get created. Strange...

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[schwager@rodin ~]$ dragon
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.11 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd
^C
[schwager@rodin ~]$ ls -ld /dev/dvd
ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory
[schwager@rodin ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs           50G  9.1G   38G  20% /
devtmpfs        3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.8G   92K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.8G  5.8M  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3        50G  9.1G   38G  20% /
tmpfs           3.8G   49M  3.7G   2% /tmp
/dev/sda2       387G  151G  217G  42% /home
/dev/sda1       485M   50M  410M  11% /boot
/dev/sr0        7.2G  7.2G     0 100% /run/media/schwager/THE_FIGHTER


... I also note that there is no /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules. Not sure if that's to be expected in Fedora 18, as there's no udev either...

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[root@rodin ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i udev
system-config-printer-udev-1.3.12-7.fc18.x86_64
libgudev1-197-1.fc18.2.x86_64


I linked /dev/sr0 to /dev/dvd and it worked. It looks like Fedora changed things a few releases ago and dragon is not in sync with those changes.

Thanks for the help; all I needed to do was create that link and it's good.

might wish to post a bug with Fedora

The bug in this case is not in Dragon Player or any part of KDE - it is in libdvdread.