hi, right now i'm using red hat 9 and i have mplayer installed and working fine. i wanted to know if any one has launched mplayer from the command line with options to play an audio cd. i browsed the man pages and it had this:
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mplayer [cdda|cddb]://track[:speed][/device] [options]
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and this:
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-cdda <option1ption2> (CDDA only)
This option can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of
MPlayer.

Available options are:

speed=<value>
set CD spin speed

paranoia=<0-2>
set paranoia level
0: disable checking
1: overlap checking only (default)
2: full data correction and verification

generic-dev=<value>
use specified generic SCSI device

sector-size=<value>
atomic read size

overlap=<value>
force minimum overlap search during verification to <value> sectors.

toc-bias
Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as reported
in the TOC will be addressed as LBA 0. Some Toshiba
drives need this for getting track boundaries correct.

toc-offset=<value>
Add <value> sectors to the values reported when address-
ing tracks. May be negative.

(no)skip
(never) accept imperfect data reconstruction.
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i'm not sure how to type these options. if i type mplayer cdda://1
it doesn't work. has any one already done this?

what doesn't it work? what is the error? most likely you're not useing a suitable symlink to /dev/cdrom, which is what mplayer will access by default.

thanks for the reply acid, if i type mplayer cdda://1 i get this output:

MPlayer 1.0pre5-RPM-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1100 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/foust/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/foust/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/foust/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/foust/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
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.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/foust/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing cdda://1.
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
[file] No filename
Failed to open cdda://1


Exiting... (End of file)

now if i type -
mplayer dvd://1 it works so i think i'm not aware of how cdda is set up or something. i do have cdparanoia installed and the other cd players i have do work. from what i heard when you install mplayer it should enable cdparanoia if it detects it. but i installed from rpms so i didn't see any output from the install. any ideas?

ok i'll concede... that is impressivley vague for once.

try using cddb instead, and also specify the device with " -cdrom-device /dev/hdc" for example.

using cddb:// and /dev/scd0 doesn't do anything different. i get the same output.
/dev/scd0 is what /dev/cdrom links to on my system.

oooooooooh, right so that's a cd burner then? yuck... if you're running a 2.6 kernel, remove the ide-scsi emulation from the bootloader configuration, if you're still on 2.4... i don't honestly know if it will work. i guess it should but i don't really know. scsi emulation can do odd things.

ok i'll try that and let you know how it goes. thanks acid.