[MPlayer-users] Silly (but simple, hopefully) question

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 31 July 2006 at 21:07, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 13.10, Carsten wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not sure how to play a cd via mplayer on windows, but on Linux  
> > you
> > could play it by choosing "play file", since any mounted device will
> > appear in your home directory.
> 
> Actually, no. You'd use it with the cdda:// option, not "play file."  
> Linux doesn't create fake files (each track is a file) in a fake  
> filesystem. So, unless you ripped the CD, using the "play file"  
> options wouldn't work.

There is cdfs, which does just that, although I don't know of any
distros that have it out-of-the box.

Regards,
R.

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