[MPlayer-users] what are these files?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:38:29PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 April 2004 at 21:04, Klaus Becker wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:24, Joonas Koivunen wrote:
> > > On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:37, Klaus Becker wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have a cd with following entries. I cannot play these files and I
> > > > wonder if they are avi files or other movie files:
> > >
> > > Sounds like you've got a VCD cd and you've (somehow?) mounted it. Umount it
> > > and 'mplayer /dev/cdrom' might work if you've got permissions to read that
> > > device.
> > 
> > It does not work:
> > Playing /mnt/cdrom
> > Cache fill:  0,00% (0 bytes)
> > 
> > So it's a cd or a dvd?
> 
> If it's VCD then it can't be played while it's mounted. Unmount it and play
> using vcd://2.

Or more likely vcd://1

Rich