Comment 2 for bug 1255824

This is not a VLC bug. There should be a udev rule that creates the /dev/dvd symlink to the drive when inserting a DVD.

I can reproduce the problem by inserting a DVD:

$ udevadm info /dev/sr0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sr0
N: sr0
L: -100
S: cdrom
S: disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_CH10LS20_K9VA5JL2620
S: disk/by-label/THE_BOURNE_SUPREMACY
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/cdrom /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_CH10LS20_K9VA5JL2620 /dev/disk/by-label/THE_BOURNE_SUPREMACY
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sr0
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_ATA=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PM=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PM_ENABLED=0
E: ID_ATA_SATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_RATE_GEN1=1
E: ID_BUS=ata
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_BD=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RAM=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA_SESSION_COUNT=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA_STATE=complete
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT_DATA=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_FS_LABEL=THE_BOURNE_SUPREMACY
E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=THE_BOURNE_SUPREMACY
E: ID_FS_TYPE=udf
E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
E: ID_MODEL=HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_CH10LS20
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=HL-DT-ST\x20BDDVDRW\x20CH10LS20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_REVISION=1.01
E: ID_SERIAL=HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_CH10LS20_K9VA5JL2620
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=K9VA5JL2620
E: ID_TYPE=cd
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=0
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: TAGS=:seat:uaccess:
E: UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=83774