Constant, There are some good video players for linux. The two ones that I use constantly to watch various formats are "xine" and "mplayer". If I remember correctly, SuSE 8.1 comes with mplayer but I don't have 8.1 so I had installed that myself from source. If you are going to do that, make sure that you grab the extra codecs to increase the different formats that you can watch, and also make sure you configure it with gui turned on if you like to have a gui front end. Once you have either of these two, then you can watch your vcd. The dat file seems to be the one (check for the large size; that should be a good indicator in general). As for automatically mounting a media, you can use the automount package. Read the HOWTOs for that and set it up (pretty straightforward). What it does for you is that it automatically mounts the media that you put in your, say, CDROM. Ali. On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:00 am, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

Being completely ignorant about video formats, I am lost as what to do in order to look at some vcd's that I have. In the meantime I have some players who claim to show most available formats but I have not found out yet how and where to start. If I look at the directories on that vcd I find five. One is empty -segment-, the others have several different files in them.

directory | files ----------------------------------------------------------- cdi | cdi all.rtf, cdi bum.dat, cdi font.fnt

| cdi vcd.app

ext | lot x.vcd, psd x.vcd mpegav | avseg01.dat segment | ------ vcd | entries.vcd, info.vcd, lot.vcd, psd.vcd ------------------------------------------------------------

Should I open one of those files and if so, which one? Could I see what kind of mpeg vcd this is? I have mounted the cdrecorder with the cdrecorder button. Are there programs which do this automatically?