VCD disks

[Oliver Fromme]

Tak Pui LOU <lou at man-97-187.reshall.berkeley.edu> wrote:
 > mplayer doesn't seem to take stdin as an input file for me. It is not
 > tosha's problem.
 > 
 > It can't play the stdin when I do this:
 > 
 > tosha -t 1 -o - | mplayer -

That's strange.  mplayer reads from stdin for me without
any problems, I just checked it (I normally prefer to use
a real DVD player for playing DVDs and VCDs, though).

Also, playing audio CDs directly works fine, like this:
tosha -o - | pcmplay -

(That's very useful if you don't have an audio cable
connection between the CD-ROM drive and the sound card.
And even if you do, the quality will probably be better,
because there's one analogue step less.)

Regards
   Oliver

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