[MPlayer-users] watching VCD on Plextor drives

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:01:52PM +0200, Thomas Maguin wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 20:54, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > Try getting rid of the '-wid 56623340' option. That's telling mplayer to
> > play within an external window, which probably doesn't exist then.
> >
> mplayer -slave  -vo xv -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 
> 0 -saturation 0  -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom 'vcd://02'    
> 
> is working fine, while 

This is the correct way to play a vcd.

> 
> mplayer -slave  -vo xv -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 
> 0 -saturation 0  /dev/hdd vcd://2 
> 
> results in an extremly fragmented movie with the bad performance.

This command is wrong because you are playing the "file" /dev/hdd
and that is incorrect in your case (playing a VCD).

Giacomo