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
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
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
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 /
[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 ru
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 ?
Try "vcd" instead of "vdc"?
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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:
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.
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I wonder how you are able to play dvd and not vcd.
Doesnt "mplayer -fs vcd://1" work?
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