Yep thats what plagues me too. After typing in the command this is what I get:
$ mplayer - fs vdc://1 MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 847.2 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/ram/.mplayer/config Reading /home/ram/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/ram/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/ram/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing -. Reading from stdin... Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache end of message what next ? regards ram Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>But I still cannot play a VCD - they have .dat files and mpg videos. >> >> >> > >I wonder how you are able to play dvd and not vcd. > >Doesnt "mplayer -fs vcd://1" work? > >-- >Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog > >PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 > > > >_______________________________________________ >ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org >http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd >Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi >http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/