Comment 8 for bug 1255824

I didn't have this problem in 12.05... so, /dev/dvd is considered obsolete??? and is now removed?!?!? Well, somebody forgot to tell that to all the app developers.

In BETA 14.04 the following are broken due to this *feature*
xine, gxine, (totem) Videos
I didn't test VLC but this bug was orignally entered for vlc.

So, Basically any and every video player in existance is broken by the remove of /dev/dvd

is that really such a good idea??? especially since xine sucks at trying to manually select a disk.

I can get the players to work by creating a symlink to /dev/cdrom, which itself appears to be a link to /dev/sr0
but every time that I reboot the computer I have to recreate the symlink. This is a major headache and 80% of end users will not figure this out, instead they will conclude that Ubuntu won't play DVD's and they should use windows instead.

This should be a death by 1000 cuts item....

Why would anyone ever think that removeing /dev/dvd and breaking all of the video players in existance was actually a good idea?!?!?!?