[MPlayer-users] Play VCD

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 05 January 2008 at 11:37, yh wrote:
> On 2008-01-02 12:40+0530, Yajith Ajantha Dayarathna | යජිත් අජන්ත දයාරත්න wrote:
> >mplayer -cdrom-device <cdrom device> vcd://<track no>
> >
> >eg: mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom vcd://1
> >
> >Give the cdrom device path, that is mounted to /media/cdrom
> >for <cdrom device>
> 
> I did following command and got an error as well:
> 
> $ mplayer -cdrom-device /media/cdrom vcd://1
> 
> Playing vcd://1.
> read CDROM toc header: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Failed to get cd toc
> Failed to open vcd://1.
> 
> $ ls /media/cdrom
> 
> cdda  cdi  ext  karaoke  mpegav  segment  vcd
> 
> What is my problem.

Your problem is that you didn't know that VCDs have no real filesystem, so
mounting them is useless (so is using the mounted path as -cdrom-device)
and won't work. Just pass the real cdrom device (/dev/sr1 or /dev/hdc or
whatever it is on your system) to MPlayer and try playing vcd://2.

Regards,
R.

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