I cannot get xine to play VCD. I have FC5 with two CDRW/DVDR drives. I recently rebuilt after a my northbridge fried and i bought a new mobo.

After installation, I ran yum update so the system is up to date. Then downloaded xine0.99.4 and xine-lib1.1.2 rpms and installed. This all worked except avi would not play so i downloaded the latest source and compiled and everything worked including avi, mpg, wmv and DVD (obvisouly i installed DVDCSS and w32 codecs).

Then I found an old VCD disk and tried to play it but it won't. I am trying to play it in the same drive as I play DVDs in. I have checked the device settings in xine and the VCD device path is set to /dev/hdc but I have also tried creating a link /dev/vcd linked to /dev/hdc. Now, if I hit the VCD button on the xine control panel, nothing happens and the disk does not attemt to spin up. If I hit the VCDC button, the disk appears to spin up and xine crahses and exits. If I type xine vcd://4 (which is the correct track number) at a command line, xine starts and gives the error There is no input plugin available to handle 'vcd://4'.

Any ideas please?


Thanks

Andy

I had similar issues with an old vcd on Ubuntu - try mplayer.

Hmm, that's interesting. I tried mplayer from the command line. The disk allegedly has 3 audio tracks followed by 1 video cd track. I can play the audio tracks with a cd player. When I try mplayer vcd://4 /dev/hdc it scans tracks 1,2 and 3 but can't find a 4th track. So I tried the disk in my standalone DVD player and that too can play 3 audio tracks but cannot find a 4th track. So, either Polydor are lying and there is no video track there or something strange is happening and the devices cannot see this track.

Andy

By "stand alone" DVD player do you mean like an actual hook up to your TV DVD player?

Yes, my Sony DVP-NS305 that sites under my VCR and Sky box. It only finds 3 audio tracks and no video although this is a Polycor musci CD with the VCD logao all over the cover.

Here is the uotput when i try to play track 1 with mplayer -




[user@hostname ~]$ mplayer vcd://1 /dev/hdc
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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://1.
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 3
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 06:02:12 mode: 3
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 12:37:12 mode: 3
RAWDV file format detected.
VIDEO: [DVSD] 720x480 24bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x480 Packed YUY2
Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
ADecoder init failed
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Cannot find codec 'dvaudio' in libavcodec...
ADecoder init failed
ADecoder init failed
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x56444152.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
V: 0.0 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0

Playing /dev/hdc.
Seek failed


Exiting... (End of file)




and here is the output when i try to play track 4 -





[user@hostname ~]$ mplayer vcd://4 /dev/hdc
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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://4.
track 01: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 3
track 02: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 06:02:12 mode: 3
track 03: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 12:37:12 mode: 3
ioctl dif1: Invalid argument
Error selecting VCD track. (seek)
Failed to open vcd://4.


Playing /dev/hdc.
Seek failed


Exiting... (End of file)