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Zeta comes a few applications capable of doing video playbacks. VCDStarter is a Deskbar replicant that works as a frontend to the DVD Player (VideoLAN client).

You can access the replicant's menu by right-clicking it with the mouse.

This article mainly aims to guide you through it's configuration options.

As you can see, there is not much to configure, and you really don't even have to! If you want to start a VCD, just click Autorun and the CD will start.

If playback doesn't work and everything is correct configured, you will need to do this sequence manually. To do so, mark Perform manually. Every point has very simple functions:

- Create Mountpoint: The folder you have chosen in the Preferences will be created. It may happen, that there already exists a folder with the same name, i.e. a mountet partition. But normally this should work
- Mount (S)VCD: The cd is not mounted with ISO9660, it is vcdfs, a filesystem to give the vlc the opportunity to get the stream from the vcd correctly.
- Run VLC: The DVD Player (VideoLan client) starts and the playback of the Video CD begins. It may happen, that the location of the vlc is not set correctly. You can set the location through VCDStarter's Preferences.
- Clean Up: This option will make two things: First the Video CD will get unmounted, so you can mount it per iso9660. When it has gotten unmounted, VCDStarter will delete the mount folder registration.

Config
This menu lets you configure four things:

- Mountpoint: The path to the directory on the Video CD that you want to mount. We recommend you to avoid to use partition names or system folders as mounting points.
- Launch at Boot: By choosing Yes the VCDStater replicant will stay in the Deskbar's replicant shelf, as it will be automatically started as you boot your system.
- Device Select: If you have a desktop computer, you might have more then one device capable of playing Video CDs. You can select your default devide in this option.
- VLC Location: Is the directory path to where the DVD Player (VideoLAN client) is located. By choosing Select, you can set the position of the application.

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