Comments on: Ubuntu Tip:How to Play VCD using VLC Player

By: karan

karan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:09:14 +0000

thanks …. i was able to play my vcd …

By: Angel

Angel — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:10:23 +0000

Thank u! I tried with right click open with vlc but didn’t work!! With this “trick” is cool!!

By: rana

rana — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:47:49 +0000

still getting error “VLC could not read the file and File reading failed:”
Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘vcd:///media/floppy1′. Check the log for details.

By: Kermudjin

Kermudjin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:18:04 +0000

I’m running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.4 and the problem I had was finding the SVCD device. I have a DVD+RW and a DVD ROM on my computer. Once mounted, accessing the disk from the desktop used address /media/cdrom0 - that doesn’t work. Using the auto-open used address /dev/sh - also wrong. I decided to try every possible address in /media and /dev directories. I finally found it at /dev/cdrom1. Once that was sorted out, all worked fine. So, insert the disk, open vlc, select the disk option, tell it what kind it is, and then find the address - in Ubuntu it is in /dev.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:02:07 +0000

xine player works without doing anything extra. I tried 4 different suggested players with no luck on this particular vcd.put this in terminal sudo apt-get install xine-ui

By: gijo

gijo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:29:00 +0000

i had tried d command line it worked 4 many vcds but for one wen i give d command an interface error was highlited stating that there r no suitable interface modules

By: user

user — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:25:47 +0000

Simply right click the folder and select vlc from open-with. (add vlc if there isn’t)

By: qwerty

qwerty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:06:44 +0000

vibin: That’s not a bug in vlc, but in Ubuntu.

By: Vibin

Vibin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:28:28 +0000

Nope , I have tried all these options , still my vcd not working , its not even mounting , when I played the same through Win XP everything works fine.