[MPlayer-users] Play VCD

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

Mark Himsley pisze:

> 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 <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. Thanks Dominik, that works. Kind Regards, 
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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.



Thunderbird here and everything's fine:

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> yh pisze:
>> 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 <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.
> 
>> Thanks Dominik, that works.

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