I'm used to using gmplayer (and occasionally commandline mplayer) on Puppy Linux to watch DVDs on the computers I am now using TC with.
I would also like to use Mplayer to listen to audio CDs (if that is possible).
But for the life of me, I can't get any of the two TC version I have downloaded to recognise my DVDs or CDs or do anything...
I am using TC 2.0rc1 with Xvesa (I don't want to use Xorg) and I have installed OSS.tczm (using PPR/tcz).
I have a DVD reader on /dev/hdc
I have tried optionally loading (on different boots), the following two versions of Mplayer:
Mplayer-nodeps.tcz and MPlayer-svn-gtk2.tcz
With Mplayer-nodeps.tcz:
If I stick a DVD in my machine and enter at a commandline: mplayer dvd://
I get the following message:
MPlayer SVN-r27667 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Playing dvd://.
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No such file or directory)
No stream found to handle url dvd://
Exiting... (End of file)
Admittedly, I'm just guessing the command option to use. What should I enter?
For CD audio disc in the drive, I don't have a clue even where to begin.
Can any of these two mplayer downloads play either DVDs or CDs and if so what do I have to do to get that all working? Is mplayer supposed to just work on installation out of the box, or do I have to do some configuration first (and what?).
[I don't want to use XMMS or any other player for audio or anything else if I can get away with just using commandline mplayer, though I would also like to know if there is a gui version of mplayer for download that works under Xvesa only].
Note that I am now using TC 2.0rc1 as my main desktop (on my main two machines); it does pretty much everything that I'm currently needing, except for audio and video (I couldn't care less about mpeg4s, avi;s or mp3s; it is DVD and CD that I want).
Anyone able to provide detailed steps/howto on this stuff (or is the facility simply not available under TC as yet)? I searched the forums but came up blank, though maybe I missed something.