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From: Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to play audio CD with mplayer?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:54:33
Message-Id: 55F458B4.2020706@baums-on-web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to play audio CD with mplayer? by Walter Dnes
1 Am 12.09.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Walter Dnes:
2 > I don't know why this is so difficult, because mplayer can handle just
3 > about anything. Google searches turned up 2 commandline approaches,
4 > neither of which work on my system. I want to play track 12 on an audio
5 > CD, but for now I'll settle for anything. Here's option 1...
6 >
7 > ##################################################################
8 >
9 > [d531][waltdnes][~] mplayer cdda://12
10 > MPlayer SVN-r37373 (Gentoo)-4.8.5 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team
11 >
12 > Playing cdda://12.
13 > No stream found to handle url cdda://12
14 >
15 > ##################################################################
16 >
17 > That didn't work. Option 2 finds the CD, but merely spits out a
18 > listing of the tracks, and exits...
19 >
20 > ##################################################################
21 >
22 > [d531][waltdnes][~] mplayer vcd://12
23 > MPlayer SVN-r37373 (Gentoo)-4.8.5 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team
24 >
25 > Playing vcd://12.
26 > track 01: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 00:02:00 mode: 0
27 > track 02: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 02:15:07 mode: 0
28 > track 03: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 04:43:35 mode: 0
29 > track 04: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 06:58:50 mode: 0
30 > track 05: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 08:52:48 mode: 0
31 > track 06: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 11:02:00 mode: 0
32 > track 07: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 13:33:00 mode: 0
33 > track 08: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 15:50:00 mode: 0
34 > track 09: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 17:53:55 mode: 0
35 > track 10: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 20:07:30 mode: 0
36 > track 11: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 22:00:17 mode: 0
37 > track 12: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 24:30:15 mode: 0
38 > track 13: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 26:55:43 mode: 0
39 > track 14: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 29:13:68 mode: 0
40 > track 15: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 31:28:66 mode: 0
41 > track 16: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 33:20:11 mode: 0
42 > track 17: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 35:26:31 mode: 0
43 > track 18: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 37:32:69 mode: 0
44 > track 19: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 40:02:31 mode: 0
45 > track 20: adr=1 ctrl=0 format=2 42:05:71 mode: 0
46 >
47 > ##################################################################
48 >
49 > Is it possible that I'm missing a necessary USE option for mplayer?
50 >
51 > [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv mplayer
52 >
53 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
54 >
55 > Calculating dependencies... done!
56 > [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1::gentoo USE="X
57 > alsa cdio dvd dvdnav enca encode iconv jpeg libass network osdmenu png
58 > shm truetype x264 xscreensaver xv -a52 -aalib (-altivec) (-aqua) -bidi
59 > -bl -bluray -bs2b -cddb -cdparanoia -cpudetection -debug -dga -directfb
60 > -doc -dts -dv -dvb -faac -faad -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gif -gsm -ipv6 -jack
61 > -joystick -jpeg2k -ladspa -libcaca -libmpeg2 -lirc -live -lzo -mad
62 > -md5sum -mng -mp3 -nas -nut -openal -opengl -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr
63 > -radio -rar -rtc -rtmp -samba -sdl (-selinux) -speex -tga -theora
64 > -toolame -tremor -twolame -unicode -v4l -vdpau (-vidix) -vorbis -xanim
65 > -xinerama -xvid -xvmc -zoran" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3
66 > -3dnow -3dnowext" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx" 0 KiB
67
68 First of all, vcd is not a cd, it's a video cd. It's a very old format
69 (predecessor of the dvd with a much lower resolution as far as I know).
70 I have never seen one.
71
72 Regarding the CDs, try to build mplayer with USE="cdparanoia". If you
73 have a Blu-ray drive you probably want to build it with USE="bluray",
74 too. And for some convenience you also may want to add USE="cddb".