Red Hat 8.0 and DVD question?

[The Punisher]

Running Red Hat 8.0 Pro. with a Pioneer DVD/Rw drive. The drive is working fine as a CD device but I downloaded MPLAYER as RPMs and installed it but it will not play with my DVD drive. When I try to play DVD's it pops up with this error:
***Couldnt open DVD device /dev/dvd***
I am using the KDE gui and it shows that it recognizes the cd rom device as a CD/DVD Rom drive, but cant get it to work.
The propertys of this drive are
/dev/cdrom
mount point. /mnt/cdrom
Can anyone help? Maybe I dont have the right driver?:(

[AbecX]

your drive is fine, just need to setup a link correctly hehe

cd to /proc/ide and do a ls and tell me what directorys you have in there.

[The Punisher]

I did an ls in that dir and it says this

<B>drivers</B> hda hdc ide0 ide1 sis

[AbecX]

rm -rf /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

[The Punisher]

:D :D :D :D That error is gone, but now getting another error: Cant open VMG info!:(
Is something not installed right?

[AbecX]

VMG is realted to the DVD encoding stuff.

To play encrypted DVD's you need these:

http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.4/rpm/libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.4-2.i586.rpm
http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.4/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.4-2.i586.rpm

[The Punisher]

installed those to RPMs and still gives same error:(
When I downloaded Mplayer they had a RPM package for encoding called "mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i386.rpm", but when I try to install it, it says I am missing this package "libmp3lame.so.0" Could this be it? But that package was not on the download page.

[AbecX]

Compile this as well:
http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz

This decodes the audio.