[MPlayer-users] How to play an XCD?

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Martin Collins wrote:

> I think your XCD is duff. How did you build it? My understanding is
> an XCD should have at least two tracks: the first is a mode 1 track
> which contains subsidiary files such as subtitles and a fake entry
> for the movie which is actually in the second, mode 2, track.
> When I play an XCD mplayer -vcd 2 says:
> 
> Playing VCD track 2
> track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
> track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:08:02  mode: 1
> VCD start byte position: 0x155908  end: 0x31BF30E0
> 
> When you play yours only one track is shown:
> 
> > Playing VCD track 2
> > track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
> > ioctl dif1: Input-/Outputerror
> > Error selecting VCD track. (seek)
> 
> When I try to play track one with mplayer -vcd 1 it hangs in the same
> place as yours.
> 
>  I suspect you have not included the movie file in your bin file.

hmm.. It seems to be as if the creators of the xcds I got did something
wrong, or something different so mplayer can not play these cds. Do I now
have no chance to get the movie file out of the xcd?

I tried mounting it with cdfs.. I only see one iso image on the cd then,
with a size of 700 MB.