[MPlayer-users] combining multiple CDs (of a movie)

[Martin Emrich]

Hi !

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:31:05 +0530
Dr Chittaranjan Mandal <chitta at cse.iitkgp.ernet.in> wrote:

> Is there a way to combine the contents of
> multiple CDs of a movie into a single entity to avoid changing CDs.

If you have 2 Drives (maybe a DVD and a CD-Recorder like me), you
can do some sequential playing (here with VCDs, Fullscreen, 1st disc in
DVD, 2nd in CDR):

film at garrett:~$ mplayer -vcd 1 -fs ; mplayer -vcd 1 fs -cdrom-device
/dev/scd0

On my computer, between the two discs there is about 500msec pause,
hardly noticeable. You can even extend this method to >2 discs, you just
have to put the 3rd disc in the DVD drive while the 2nd is playing...

>  One option would be to combine them into a big iso file to be
>  stored on a harddisk rather than an actual CD.

Huh, AFAIK mencoder can't join videos, maybe avidemux can help. If
mencoder can do it after all, someone hit me now please *g*
One way or another, IMHO joining to harddisk every multi-CD-movie I'd
like to watch would be more painful than getting up to change CDs during
the movie...

CU

Martin Emrich