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When trying to play a DVD I get a "can't open file" error popup, and the following shows up in the log:

21:48:54 T:140187682215680 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting /initrd.img/BDM
V/PLAYLIST
21:48:54 T:140187682215680 ERROR: CDVDInputStreamBluray::Open - failed to get
title info
21:48:54 T:140187682215680 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening
[/initrd.img/BDMV/index.bdmv]
21:48:54 T:140187682215680 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
21:48:54 T:140187682215680 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0
, path [/initrd.img]
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITI
ALIZED
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
21:48:54 T:140188132222848 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: /initrd.img

Basically, when I hit play -- after XBMC has properly detected the disc insert event -- it tries to play the file '/initrd.img' as the DVD device. If I symlink /initrd.img to /dev/sr0 it will play properly, but I am at a complete loss as to why this is happening in the first place. Furthermore, having /initrd.img symlinked to the DVD device is not ideal for a number of reasons.

Any thoughts/suggestions? I also could not find any way to force DVDPlayer to use a specific device for disc playback in the documentation.

i've seen this too, DVDs won't play on eden.

I'm having this problem too, using xbmc 2:11.0~git20120229.f38655f-0ubuntu1~ppa1~oneiric from the Ubuntu PPA.

It's also been reported in this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=114982