[MPlayer-users] Re: How to play an XCD?

[Alban Bedel]

Hi D Richard Felker III,

on Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:43:26 -0400 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:44:05AM -0800, Sycotic
> Smith wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > > > How can I play a XCD with mplayer?
> > > > 
> > > > mplayer -vcd 2 -cache 4096 -ss N
> > > > 
> > > > where N is a small number. No need to mount the CD.
> > > 
> > > Hi, thanks for your try to help me, but the XCD does not seem to
> > > play. I will attach the error message of mplayer in the end of the
> > > message. 
> > > 
> > > > > Or how can I extract the movie from the disc, to play it
> > > > > afterwards with mplayer.. ?
> > > > 
> > > > mplayer -vcd 2 -dumpstream
> > > > 
> > > > the movie file will be called stream.dump
> > > 
> > > This does not run corretly either :(
> > > When I mount the XCD I see this file:
> > > 
> > > -r-xr-xr-x    1 paladin  root         701M 2003-03-28 12:55
> > > movie.ogm.xcd.dat
> > > 
> > > I can not copy this to the hard disk.. and -vcd 2 -dumpstream does
> > > not work either:
> > > 
> > > On trying to play or dump the XCD:
> > > 
> > > 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)
> > 
> > Have you tried playing the file on the disc AFTER mounting? Would be
> > my guess you don't have VCD enabled in the first place, but since
> > you cut mplayer output there's no way to know for sure. Other
> > problem could be the disc is scratched (input/output ioctl error...)
> > or bad drive. Can this disc be played anywhere, on ANY
> > platform/player?
> 
> This definitely will not work. RTFa. You have to use -vcd.
It's deprecated ;) use vcd://2
	Albeu