[MPlayer-users] watching VCD on Plextor drives

[RC]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:07:33 +0200
Thomas Maguin <T.Maguin at web.de> wrote:

> mplayer vcd://2 /dev/hdx on Plextor drives still results in an 
> unacceptable "movie".

That's because you're writing a completely screwed-up command-line
there.  You can't just put the device name in the command-line, and have
mplayer guess you want that as the vcd device to play.  It will just
play /dev/hdx as a file, which is the problem.

See -cd-device in the man page.