[MPlayer-users] How to play an XCD?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:45:04PM +0100, Martin Collins wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:04:22 +0200
> compisoft at web.de wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, well it's not like it's an ISO standard or something. Could be
> your XCD was made with an old version of the tools, or a new
> experimental version, or a complete idiot.
> 
> > Do I now have no chance to get the movie file out of the
> > xcd?
> 
> If there is a movie on there cdfs is probably your last, best hope.
> 
> > I tried mounting it with cdfs.. I only see one iso image on the cd
> > then, with a size of 700 MB.
> 
> I have had success getting a movie off a correct XCD with cdfs. The
> trick is to make sure nothing else is running on your machine and
> don't touch the keyboard or mouse until the copying is finished.
> With luck your machine won't crash until it's done.

LOL, is this Windows?????

Rich