From d9139f5890442498f3dfcd8e1f1a39f8c7976116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: arpi Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 04:52:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] some words about VCD git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@1868 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/cd-dvd.html | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/DOCS/cd-dvd.html b/DOCS/cd-dvd.html index d6a6f741e4..5422fed88c 100644 --- a/DOCS/cd-dvd.html +++ b/DOCS/cd-dvd.html @@ -5,6 +5,27 @@

4.1. CD-ROM drives

+

Playing standard Video CDs:

+ +

+mplayer -vcd trackno [device]

+Examples:
+mplayer -vcd 1
+mplayer -fs -vcd 2 /dev/hdc
+

+ +

+Notes:
+- Do NOT mount VCD disks and play DAT files directly! It may work under windows +but won't work under linux. You have to play them directly, with the -vcd +option!
+- VCD disks usually have 2 tracks: a data track (containing autostart windows +playback program, karaoke data etc) and a mode-2 track (the movie), so try +-vcd 2 first!
+- the default VCD device is /dev/cdrom. if your device differs, then you have +to make a symlink, or specify it in command line! +

+

From Linux documentation:

Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several