playing VCD

Edems · #1 24th February 2007, 12:54 PM

hi members

can some one help me out .
How can i play VCD films on Fedora core 6.
the cd even fails to mount (it does not even read)
is there anything missing .
i can play DVD with Xine but

Thanks

Rezwan Mahbub · #2 8th March 2007, 08:15 PM

Hey the same problem Here Some body HELP US!!!!

Thetargos · #3 8th March 2007, 08:43 PM

Have you tried Xine and picking the VCD option? Also how is xine configured (you actually need to tell xine which your CD device is under the media tab in the configuration window).

sailor · #4 8th March 2007, 10:18 PM

You might not have all the codecs....
http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...061022.tar.bz2

Read the readme file in this archive it will tell you where to put the files. Both mplayer and xine can use these windows codecs.

Rezwan Mahbub · #5 30th March 2007, 08:56 AM

the readme file shows where to copy the codecs to make it run on Mplayer but I cant find how to make it work in totem xine.

jim · #6 31st March 2007, 02:41 PM

I convert vcds to dvd's then i can play them anywhere

vcdimager-0.7.23-3.lvn6

then run vcdxrip /dev/hdc if hdc is your cd rom/dvd drive

when finished you have a mpeg file

Rezwan Mahbub · #7 31st March 2007, 07:49 PM

I want to run VCD or Dat file in totem xine player

Rezwan Mahbub · #8 3rd April 2007, 05:05 AM

Is it not possible to run VCD of any x.dat file on totem xine player

zara2stra · #9 5th April 2007, 08:44 AM

I'm fighting with this issue myself, as my daughter watches a lot of Cartoons on VCD's, but so far I wasn't able to run any VCD from Xine/Mplayer gui. But I managed to run it from the terminal using Mplayer. I don't remember the exact commands to do it, but I have them stored somewhere on my home computer, so I'll post them as soon as I get home. It isn't perfect, as I cannot figure out the commands to allow smooth playing in stretched fullscreen, but I didn't have the time to work on it for some time - it is definitely possible.

zara2stra · #10 5th April 2007, 08:58 PM

I checked it one more time today, and it seems that even the resizing works wit no additional options, maybe it's thanks to one of the Mplayer/Kernel updates that I made recently. The code to play VCD's with Mplayer is:

Code:

mplayer vcd://XX -cdrom-device /dev/YYY

you choose a chapter by changing XX into 01,02,03 etc. (most VCDs that I've tried had the main movie in chapter 02) and your cd-rom device by changing YYY into an appropriate device from /dev (it was dvd in my case)

I hope this helps at least a little.

sujoykroy · #11 18th August 2008, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zara2stra

I checked it one more time today, and it seems that even the resizing works wit no additional options, maybe it's thanks to one of the Mplayer/Kernel updates that I made recently. The code to play VCD's with Mplayer is:

Code:

mplayer vcd://XX -cdrom-device /dev/YYY

you choose a chapter by changing XX into 01,02,03 etc. (most VCDs that I've tried had the main movie in chapter 02) and your cd-rom device by changing YYY into an appropriate device from /dev (it was dvd in my case)

I hope this helps at least a little.

More than a year old, but still awesome!

sujoykroy · #12 18th August 2008, 03:52 PM

Using smplayer (or any other mplayer front end) will make things simpler.

Code:

yum install smplayer