[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: reworked cd-dvd.html

[Diego Biurrun]

Nilmoni Deb writes:
 > 
 > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > 
 > > Nilmoni Deb writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > 1. "Do not mount VCD disks and play DAT files directly!"
 > >  > 
 > >  > Many systems surrently have the supermount feature enabled. Which means if
 > >  > u put a vcd it will be mounted auto. Will that prevent mplayer from
 > >  > playing the vcd ? Its confusing because if the device is not mounted
 > >  > mplayer cannot read anything at all. May be the statement should be like:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Make sure that the VCD is mounted. But do not try to play the mounted DAT
 > >  > files directly!
 > > 
 > > Hmm, to be honest I have no idea whether this is true or not..  I need
 > > to get a VCD for testing.
 > 
 > I checked the latest version (1.34). I still suggest that u change this to
 > what I suggested. Its kind of obvious that if the system does not mount
 > the file system, no app can read the files. I remember having played a vcd
 > only after mounting it.

You are right, as usual ;).  I just dropped the reference to mounting
the VCD, I think we can take this for granted on Unix.

 > >  > 2. The title of 4.1 should not be "CD-ROM drives" but something like "VCD
 > >  > playback" since the info is VCD specific. Obviously, "mplayer -vcd 2" will
 > >  > not work if u r trying to read an AVI u burnt into a CD-R disc.
 > > 
 > > Yes, but I would go even further and divide it into 3 sections:
 > >   4.1 CD-ROM drives
 > >   4.2 VCD playback
 > >   4.3 DVD playback
 > 
 > 4.1 should be renamed as "CD/DVD drives" because this applies for cd/dvd
 > read operation which is true for all of these drives: cd, cd-r, cd-rw,
 > dvd, dvd-r, dvd-rw.

Agreed, changed.

Diego