Comment 9 for bug 1255824

related/dup bugs

bug #1084855 udev is creating symlinks for optical drives incorrectly
bug #1098323 Parole failes to play DVD
bug #237874 kaffeine refers to "/dev/dvd
bug #1248194 Gnome-Mplayer cannot play commercial videos: Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
bug #1295561 /dev/dvd doesn't exist

affected apps: Gnome-Mplayer, kaffeine, xine, gxine, (totem) Videos, vlc ...
they all expect /dev/dvd and are broken without it.

How can you say that udev should not support /dev/dvd unless you intend to also at the same time coordinate the modification of every single video player program -- all of them -- at the same time. Otherwise all you are delivering is *MAJOR* Breakage of Ubuntu.

This affects all flavors of ubuntu...

I found this in the 14.04 BETA, but apparently it's been broken since 13.04 (which I never ran due to other bugs), it works fine in 12.04 which has the /dev/dvd.