[MPlayer-users] [NEWBIE] VCDs take long time to start

[mandar at isical.ac.in]

Hello all,

I'm using MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.3 (Packman RPM) on SuSE 10.0. 

When I play a VCD using mplayer (by running "gmplayer vcd://4" for
example), it takes a long time to start. mplayer seems to be doing 
something with the CD drive (lights blink rapidly), and after a relatively
long gap, the movie starts playing.

Should I just live with this, or is there anything that I can tweak
to get a quicker startup?

Here are some of the messages that are displayed on screen:


Playing vcd://4.
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 11
track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:42:02  mode: 11
track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  01:02:46  mode: 11
track 04:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  01:12:58  mode: 11
track 05:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  48:29:52  mode: 11
ioctl dif1: Invalid argument
ioctl dif1: Invalid argument
                                <------- long pause here
MPEG-PS file format detected.


Thanks for any suggestions,
Mandar.