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There have been a couple of questions on playing VCDs in Linux, like this one - but many years have passed since then.

I'm trying to play a VCD on Devuan 3 Beowulf (~= Debian 10 Buster without systemd). I can mount the disk; but MPV won't recognize it, and if I try "Open Disc" using VLC (the VideoLan player), I get the error message:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'vcd:///media/cdrom0'. Check the log for details.

I don't know why it's failing, plus - since when does VLC have a log?

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Use the device file, not the device's mount point.

Well, I figured out at least why it's failing:

VLC expects you to specify a device on which to look for a VCD, not a folder with files in it (although why that's the case is beyond me.) In Linux, devices are specified by a pair of numbers (major, minor); but there are filesystem nodes associated with these numbers, creating a mapping of file paths to devices.

So, in a terminal, run:

$ df /media/cdrom

and you should get something like:

Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sr0          563718 563718         0 100% /media/cdrom0

the /dev/sr0 string is what VLC expects.

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