[Gllug] V-CD problem

salsaman salsaman at xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 18 19:56:25 UTC 2006


Emon wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I am running Slackware10.2 with KDE desktop.
>
>I am having trouble playing a particular VCD, first I mounted
>the VCD, which went ok, then tried playing the file
>"/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat" with gxine but it gave me the
>following error.
>
>************
>xine engine failed to start.
>
>No demuxer found - stream format not recognised.
>************
>
>Then I tried to copy the file, but KDE gave me the following
>error
>
>***********
>Cannot read file /mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>***********
>
>So I tried this in the console & it gave me the following error
>
>************
>jadukor at magic-box:~$ file /mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat
>/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat: ERROR: cannot read
>`/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat' (Input/output error)
>jadukor at magic-box:~$
>***********
>
>So reluctantly I switched to XP & tried to play the file with
>PowerDVD5, and it played fine.
>
>Then I tried to copy the file to my HDD, which also went fine; I
>was unable to do any of these under Linux!!
>Then tried playing the file again from my HDD under Linux with
>gxine, this time it played fine.
>
>So..... what has gone wrong??
>
>Thanks
>Emon
>  
>
Have you tried with mplayer or gmplayer ?

mplayer vcd://1 should do it.

I think vcd's use their own filesystem, so just playing the file "as is" 
may not work. I.e it needs to be mounted first.

Regards,
Salsaman.
http://lives.sourceforge.net

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