I want to use mplayer to play some plain old Deutsche Grammophon CD's because it cuts down significantly more on mainboard and other spurious noise than gnome-cd, xmms, and whatever else. Why? <Your answer here :)>
If I max out the gain on my speakers, I can hear corresponding noise from clock, mouse, hard drive, and other events, and in gnome-cd, xmms, et al the signal (e.g. Beethoven) causes cascading fuzzy noises which seem to degrade the s/n ratio to as low as probably 4:1. I am considering signal to be the Berliner Philharmoniker and noise to be everything else. Yes it is a digital recording, so there is no original tape hiss. In fact Herbert von Karajan in 1980 was among the very first to insist on digital throughout. Digital as a practicable audio medium came out in August 1979. Nevermind. Digression. Here is what I tried: $ mplayer vcd:// -cdrom-device /dev/hdc I guess that's an mplayer protocol? Anyway it told me: Playing vcd:// track 01: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 00:02:32 mode: 120 track 02: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 15:38:32 mode: 120 track 03: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 26:04:32 mode: 120 track 04: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 41:58:32 mode: 120 track 05: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 48:05:52 mode: 120 Cache fill: 19.29% (1617504 bytes) TiVo file format detected. MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. No stream found. Exiting... (End of file) So what is going on? All the mplayer documentation I found for playing audio CD's points to this command line argument. Justin _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
