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synthead

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Re: [CLOSED]VLC Player not playing VCD'S, but plays the same in XP

I counted around 25 VCD's that do not play in ARCH.

Arch Linux is nothing more than some scripts.  Technically, pacman isn't even Arch either, it is just a package manager.  VLC "for Arch Linux" is nothing more than the sources straight from the VLC website compiled with a few custom flags and a custom install path.  Everything else about VLC is exactly the way the author intended it to be.  Arch isn't like Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, or Mandriva where you get one very bloated, massive system that'll work for everyone--you get an extremely light and fast install where you have to install and configure just about everything yourself.  If VCDs don't play in Arch, you're just telling us that you haven't gotten them to work yet.

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'vcd:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.

Did you check the log for details?  If it is disabled, go to Tools -> Preferences, by Show Settings, click All, open Advanced, and set a log path in Logging.  Reproduce the error and check the log.  If you need more help reading the logs, post here, but please follow the hints that your machine is telling you (and Google is your friend, too).

San2ban

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Re: [CLOSED]VLC Player not playing VCD'S, but plays the same in XP

I tried you suggestion. It does not generate an error log. If I do not put a disc, and simply try to play the vcd, an error log is generated.
Pl. suggest   further

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San2ban

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Re: [CLOSED]VLC Player not playing VCD'S, but plays the same in XP

Here is the 'log' contents of SMplayer.

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -lavdopts vismv=7 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo x11 -ao oss -zoom -nokeepaspect -autosync 100 -mc 0 -nodr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 67109284 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/san2ban/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 50 -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom -cache 1000 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af volnorm=1,scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 vcd://2

MPlayer SVN-r31428-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
154 audio & 339 video codecs
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.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing vcd://2.
ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
ID_VCD_END_TRACK=3
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  02:42:00  mode: 1
ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=02:40:00
track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  04:22:00  mode: 1
ID_VCD_TRACK_2_MSF=01:40:00
ID_VCD_TRACK_3_MSF=43:54:60

Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
Cache fill:  9.09% (92960 bytes)   
Cache not filling!

somebody pl. help

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San2ban

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Re: [CLOSED]VLC Player not playing VCD'S, but plays the same in XP

Pl, see the content of Mplayer-log

/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo x11 -ao alsa -zoom -nokeepaspect -autosync 100 -mc 0 -nodr -double -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -stop-xscreensaver -wid 50332068 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/san2ban/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom -cache 1000 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af volnorm=1,scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 vcd://2

MPlayer SVN-r31428-4.5.0 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
154 audio & 339 video codecs
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.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing vcd://2.
ID_VCD_START_TRACK=1
ID_VCD_END_TRACK=1
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
ID_VCD_TRACK_1_MSF=73:53:13
ioctl dif1: Input/output error
Error selecting VCD track. (seek)
Failed to open vcd://2.

Exiting... (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

Pl. somebody   guide me

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Satyam eva jayate

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