[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] VCD Playback via libdcio

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:16:44PM -0500, R. Bernstein wrote:
> 2. Auto VCD detection. libcdio provides auto-detection of CD-drives
>    with VCDs in them on all platforms. For example if you have
>    multiple CD-ROMs you can leave the drive specification blank and if
>    you specify a vcd MRL all of the drives will be scanned for a VCD.

probing cdrom drives is NOT a feature, it's a huge bug. sdl does this
and once caused a cd burn to fail and go haywire because it started
probing the cdrw drive!!! probing nonsense belongs on windows, not on
*nix!!!

can this be disabled?

rich