[MPlayer-cygwin] VCD, different behavior

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2007/11/28, RVM <rvm3000 at ya.com>:
> Hi. I'm developing a mplayer frontend (smplayer). I read that now mplayer on
> windows can play VCDs (vcd://...) so I tested it this morning with a recent
> mplayer build.
>
> It works, but there are some differences compared to the linux version.
>
> This is what mplayer under linux (MPlayer dev-SVN-r25184-3.3.4) says in the
> console output when playing a vcd:
>
> Playing vcd://2.
> ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
> ID_VCD_END_TRACK=3
> track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 0
> track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  00:15:21  mode: 0
> ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=00:13:21
> track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=6  format=2  02:07:57  mode: 0
> ID_VCD_TRACK_2_MSF=01:52:36
> ID_VCD_TRACK_3_MSF=03:41:66
>
> And this is what the windows version (MPlayer dev-SVN-r24956-4.2.2) says
> (using the same disc):
>
> Playing vcd://2.
> ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
> ID_VCD_END_TRACK=3
> track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=6  00:02:00
> track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=6  00:15:21
> ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=00:00:00
> track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=6  02:07:57
> ID_VCD_TRACK_2_MSF=02:15:21
> ID_VCD_TRACK_3_MSF=03:07:57
>
> You see, the length (is the length?) that appears in the ID_VCD_TRACK_X_MSF
> tags are not the same.

I'll fix it right away.

> Another difference is that under linux title 1 is played with vcd://2, and
> title 2 with vcd://3 (vcd://1 doesn't play anything), while on windows title
> 1 is played with vcd://1 and title 2 with vcd://2 (vcd://3 plays nothing).

Hmm...I guess this time Windows version is doing the right thing? Did
u test it on other platforms that support VCD, i.e. Darwin and
FreeBSD?

> This different behavior makes that my program doesn't work as expected when
> playing vcds under windows.



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