[CLOSED]VLC Player not playing VCD'S, but plays the same in XP

Question

Dear Archers
Mine is ARCH X86_64. Certain VCD, VLC plays in XP, but same vcd not played in ARCH.
Getting mad. Pl. help
Dear All
looks like these CD's need Flah player / plug-ins
Last edited by San2ban (2010-08-30 16:51:21)

Answer 1

I have to get this out.  I'm putting this in a quote so you can promptly ignore it ...
Synthead wrote:
We all donate our time to try to help people on this board without asking for anything in return.  If you are getting upset, you are forgetting the countless hours everybody has contributed to make linux a reality.  If you met all of us in person and saw that we also have daily lives, you might reconsider what you have to feel angry about.  Besides, I have a thread I started on this board since mid-2008 about a touchscreen for a Toughbook and to this day I haven't gotten it to be operational, and when I get around to poking and prodding it more, I still post discoveries in it.  Everybody in this thread could give you the RTFM, but like everyone else, I'm not going to.  I'm going to help you, and this is after waking up at 6:30AM for my job that I ended up working at for 9 1/2 hours.  My $0.02.
Arch Linux is an extremely minimalistic distro.  The largest, fattest install possible by the installer compromises of a console, simple command line programs, and development libraries.  Everything you want to do with it has a learning curve, and unless you're trying to avoid learning linux, you're going to have to teach yourself along the way.  Also, please remind yourself that Arch's packages are usually built directly from sources with very little tweaked, or for that matter, packed with them.  With Arch, you're pretty much getting the full-immersion experience with linux, and you're going to have to build your whole house with a hammer and nails.  There are several things that won't necessarily work out-of-the-box either because of the countless ways applications can be configured.  With Arch, you're going to have to understand this and hang in there until you can stand on your own feet, but you'll be greatly rewarded!  Mostly everything you will learn with this distro is linux and nothing else, not Ubuntu, CentOS, or Mint-specific stuff, you're getting the real deal.
With that aside, most command-line programs report things to the terminal output, technically called the stdout.  After trying Mplayer like a few of the guys said above, launch a terminal, type "vlc" in it and hit enter, and watch the stdout as you load the VCD and try to play it.  More than likely an error will pop up.  Let us know what happens.