Thanks Rich and Curaga,
Tried: "mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdc cdda:// -cache 5000" and get this:
"no stream found to handle url cdda://".
Playing audio cd's is not that important to me on this computer so I'll just live with it.
Many thanks for your help.
By the way, Curaga the mplayer no deps extension that you submitted works very well with dvd's.