Getting Mplayer to work

[shebang]

Hey,
I am trying to get MPLAYER to work. I compiled, etc. It compiled fine. I have all the fonts, codecs, skins (default) installed. But It keeps spitting this out:

# mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon Willamette 2181 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/ind171/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/ind171/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/ind171/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
/home/ind171/.mplayer/font/font.desc is empty or a directory, ignoring
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /home/ind171/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 0 binds

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd


Exiting... (End of file)

I tried google'ing it and found some with similar problems and found some solutions but none seem to be working. It's a regular DVD/CD Combo. Mounting CDs and Playing Audio CDs works (with gnome-cd).

Any Ideas ?

[shebang]

Well, actually I got it to work (as root) but I don't know what caused the problem. The only thing I did was add an empty /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf ...

I still need to get it working as my user though.

[cloverm]

Try this (as root):

chmod a+rw /dev/dvd

[trickster]

Or try pointing it to /dev/cdrom