[MPlayer-users] mplayer & VCD

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:39:34PM +0200, harold knibbe wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Op wo 03-09-2003, om 05:01 schreef mmihai:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > Hi  all,
> > 
> > With "mplayer vcd://2 /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc" I play a movie from a VCD 
> > (mpg file)
> > (this CD cannot be mounted)
> > But, I can save the output in a identical mpg file, on my hard disk ?
> > 
> I had some time and you had a very interesting problem, so I have given
> a try.
> 
> Here you have some results.
> 
> [root at test /]# mount mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/cdrom is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom
> [root at test /]# eject
> [root at test /]# mount mnt/cdrom
> [root at test /]# ls mnt/cdrom
> ext  mpegav  segment  vcd
> [root at test /]# mv /mnt/cdrom /home/h.knibbe/data
> mv: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/_z0000.mpg': Invoer-/uitvoerfout
> [root at test /]# mv /mnt/cdrom/ext /home/h.knibbe/data
> mv: cannot remove `/mnt/cdrom/ext': Alleen-lezen bestandssysteem
> [root at test /]#
> 
> You see it´s Dutch and it says mv: cannot remove bla bla bla and then
> ¨Only-read filesystem¨.
> I'm not a very experienced user, i saw also another mail. I would say
> try your luck again by someone else,but I give you fifty % change.

Right. You can't *move* files from a read-only medium! You want to
copy (cp) them instead...but for vcd, that's not right either, since
the files are fake. Use mplayer -dumpstream or such to extract a .mpg
file.

Rich