How To Play VCD in Ubuntu7.04

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

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.