[MPlayer-users] playing .dat files !!

[Arwed von Merkatz]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:38:07AM -0000, rohitash panda wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
>   iam not able to play VCD files.i have a cd in which i have a 
> music01.dat file.When i run mplayer
>          mplayer -vo sdl music01.dat
> It says that "File Format Not Supported" and exits.
> 
> How can i play these files in mplayer.
> I have the latest version of mplayer and iam using RedHat 7.2 with 
> default kernel that comes with this distribution.
> 
> any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> regards
> rohit
 
Don't mount VCDs/SVCDs, just run mplayer vcd://

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