How To Play VCD in Ubuntu7.04

[James Takac]

On Saturday 15 September 2007 10:13:28 Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 9/13/07, hasan noori <hasannoori1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I installed many pckages, and many media player in
> > ubuntu.
> > there many codec installed on my system.
> > i can play any thing EXCEPT VCD.
> >  please see THESE:
> >   gexine vcd error:
> > "Autoplay input plugin 'VCDO' failed
> >  Check engine output for further details."
> > ---------------
> > mplayer:
> >  "open: No such file or directory
> >   [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
> >   Error opening/initializing the selected video_out
> > (-vo) device."
> > -----------------------------
>
> Actually you can play VCD's under Totem, VCD's are just MPEG-1 videos.
> The problem is no Totem developer cares about this this bug anymore,
> so even on Feisty, Totem won't play any VCD medias,
>
> You need to open the AVSEQ0*.DAT files manually to play VCD's under Totem,
> you'll need the restricted codecs to play them.

Hi

Did a little ggogling and found the follow. Also verified on my sys that it 
works for me. vlc media player is the player to use for this one to work

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=344619&highlight=vcd

works for me

James