[MPlayer-dev-eng] Unknown codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:22:18PM +0100, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	A friend of mine give me a CD with a movie in it, it is supposed
> to be a SVCD, and my HomeDVD Player plays it without problem, but I'm
> not able to play it with mplayer, neither as vcd nor as a mpeg2 file
> (after mounting the CD). Anywhere I can upload a piece of this file so
> you can test it?

RTFM. You don't mount vcd's, they're a fake filesystem to make windows
happy. Instead you use mplayer -vcd 1 (or whatever the track number
is). BTW this belongs on mplayer-users, not the devel list.

Rich