Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two cd rom drives one external and one internal.

so if I make the symbolic link won't i lose the link to the internal one

ram

Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote

>At 2005-04-13 12:44:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>Playing vcd://1.
>>CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found.
>>Failed to open vcd://1
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>So... does /dev/cdrom point to wherever your CD-ROM drive is? If not,
>make it a symbolic link pointing to the appropriate block device.
>(See ln(1): "ln -sf /dev/cdrom ...")
>
>$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2004-11-18 20:44 /dev/cdrom -> hde
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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It works, it works

Fantastic and thanks a lot
it works on the internal drive

thanks a lot
 now what command do I have to use to make it work on the external drive


Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

>At 2005-04-13 12:34:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>$ mplayer - fs vdc://1
>>...
>>mplayer: No such file or directory
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>>what next ?
>>
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>Try "vcd" instead of "vdc"?
>
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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-13 12:44:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Playing vcd://1.
> CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found.
> Failed to open vcd://1

So... does /dev/cdrom point to wherever your CD-ROM drive is? If not,
make it a symbolic link pointing to the appropriate block device.
(See ln(1): "ln -sf /dev/cdrom ...")

$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2004-11-18 20:44 /dev/cdrom -> hde

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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ram]$ mplayer -fs vcd://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 vcd://1.
CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found.
Failed to open vcd://1


Exiting... (End of file)

I am using an external CD drive as well
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

>At 2005-04-13 12:34:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>$ mplayer - fs vdc://1
>>...
>>mplayer: No such file or directory
>>
>>what next ?
>>
>>
>
>Try "vcd" instead of "vdc"?
>
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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-13 12:34:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> $ mplayer - fs vdc://1
> ...
> mplayer: No such file or directory
>
> what next ?

Try "vcd" instead of "vdc"?

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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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:
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>>But I still cannot play a VCD  - they have .dat files and mpg videos.
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>I wonder how you are able to play dvd and not vcd.
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>Doesnt "mplayer -fs vcd://1" work?
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Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-12 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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?

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