When I play a vcd using gmplayer the video plays fine. But I get a pop up error message saying: ioctl dif1: Invalid argument. The vcd itself plays fine.

I also get something about RTC init error when running gmplayer from terminal.

Here is summary of the terminal output:


MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, St epping: 3)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
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://2.
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 10
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=4 format=2 00:08:02 mode: 10
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 20:04:59 mode: 10
track 04: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 23:35:51 mode: 10
track 05: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 27:40:08 mode: 10
track 06: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 31:42:70 mode: 10
track 07: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 35:43:54 mode: 10
ioctl dif1: Invalid argument
ioctl dif1: Invalid argument

Any ideas on what's causing the RTC init error and the ioctl dif1 errors?

I don't have any dvds with me only the vcd. So I don't know if it is a vcd issue or more general.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

I think it's more general, I get those as well, it doesn't seem to affect it's ability to play DVDs or avi files so I haven't been too concerned, but I look forward to any answer.

I have the same problem and am currently searching for a solution. This only happens with gmplayer.

For example, my cd drive is /dev/hda

To play a vcd with gmplyer I run
# gmplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hda


If I run mplayer without the GUI like so...
# mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hda

the vcd starts playing without the error message.


This leads me to conclude that this error message is specific to the settings associated with gmplayer.