[MPlayer-users] Do cue://, -format or -af format= work?

[t0ps]

I don't know about CDs, but with dvds you usually have to specify a
device (-dvd-device dir) before using dvd://track_number

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM,  <aw585 at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> 1) Generate a  cuefile from an audio cd:
>
> cdrdao read-toc    --datafile aaa.bin   aaa.toc
> toc2cue    aaa.toc   aaa.cue
>
> 2) Generate a .bin file from it, with bytes swapped with the -r switch:
>
> cdparanoia -v -r 1-   aaa.bin
>
> 3) The bin file can be burned with
>
> cdrdao write  --swap  aaa.toc
>
> 4) The "swapped" .bin file can be played with
>
> mplayer -demuxer rawaudio     aaa.bin
>
> or extracted to wavs with
>
> bchunk  -vw   aaa.bin aaa.cue    aaa.
>
> and these play fine with mplayer.
>
> 5) Regenerate the .bin, with bytes in the natural, raw order:
>
> cdparanoia -v -p  1-  aaa.bin
>
> 6) To play this aaa.bin, it is required to do:
>
> dd conv=swab   aaa.bin  |  mplayer -demuxer rawaudio   -
>
> or extracted to wavs with
>
> bchunk  -vws   aaa.bin aaa.cue    aaa.
>
> and these play fine with mplayer.
>
> 7) At one time, I thought
>
> mplayer   cue://aaa.cue
>
> would play this file, but apparently not anymore.
>
> 8) Another thing that *does not play* this .bin is
>
> mplayer -demuxer rawaudio  -format s16be    -af format=s16le   aaa.bin
>
> which is what I expected.
>
> This would allow simple verification of a clean read off
> of the optical drive by cdparanoia, cdrdao etc.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, leaving anything out, making some false
> assumption?
>
> Thanks for any attention given these issues.
>
> Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / aw585 at lafn.org
> http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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