[MPlayer-users] Play VCD

[John Brown]

> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:14:57 +0000
> From: mark at mdsh.com
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Play VCD
>
> yh wrote:
>> On 2008-01-05 15:15+0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:>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  vcd://>>>>>>eg: mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom vcd://1>>>>>>Give the cdrom device path, that is mounted to /media/cdrom>>>for >>>> 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.
>> Thanks Dominik, that works.
>> Kind Regards,
>> Jim_______________________________________________MPlayer-users mailing listMPlayer-users at mplayerhq.huhttp://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
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> Not an MPlayer issue as such, but does everyone see the massage I'm
> replying to as a horrid mess?
> I note that looking at the source of the message it is four lines, the
> quote, the thanks, the regards and the sig.
> Or is it my email server messing up the formatting? It doesn't seem to
> be my email client as I see the same in Thinderbird, Mulberry and mutt.
>
> --
> Mark
>

I see it as a mess. Is it a Hotmail message? Hotmail does that sometimes.
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