[MPlayer-users] Playing directly from a CD

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 07 July 2003, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Stefan Lange said:
> 
> > RTFM about
> >
> > mplayer [cdda|cddb]://track[:speed][/device] [options]
> 
> Well, I thought that I had built MPlayer without this support, since it
> says:
> 
> Playing cdda://1
> Unknown protocol 'cdda'
> 
> So I tried to build with cdparanoia, but I seem to have found a bug in
> RedHat's latest release of GCC (segfaults compiling MPlayer with
> "./configure --enable-gui --disable-mencoder ; make" which worked before
> up2date :-(  )
> 
> So, I rm-ed /usr/local/bin/mplayer (and gmplayer) and installed the RPMs
> at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathann/mplayer/i686.rh8
> 
> Same thing, unknown protocol.
> 
> Any hints?

Yes, RTFW(ebsite). The official RPMs are compiled without cdparanoia. If
you want the RPMs, get the source RPM and rebuild. (See the specfile for
more options.) Otherwise recompile from the source.

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