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To: James da Silva <jds@TracerTech.COM>
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Subject: Re: CDI Streams? 
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 11:27:11 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi,

I decoded Video CDI and now what was done to tmplay to decode VideoCD.

If you want the exact legal speak from Philips then I suggest that you
contact Philips.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of James da Silva :
>  > The VideoCD format is propieratory. Philips claims that by putting ISO
>  > 9660 structure to the CDROM and then encoding the actual stream in their
>  > format that they have an open standard 8)
> 
> I dunno - can we get a definitive statement about this from someone in the
> know?
> 
> I do know in my experience that at least one particular CDI movie (Live and
> Let Die) contained one big file that was an MPEG system-layer stream, which
> I was able to process using the usual mpeg tools under unix.  It made for a
> good test file for playing with MPEG.
> 
> What I did was mount the CD under W95 and copy the file over to a unix disk
> (that happened to be the most convenient setup for me), so the CD fs might
> not have been straight iso9660, but the data file was definitely straight
> MPEG system-layer.
> 
> It also played very well using ATI's full screen software MPEG player for
> W95 - a bit jerky on a P120, but the sound was great, and the effect on a
> 20' monitor was good as long as you didn't sit too close.  Popcorn anyone?
> 
> Jaime
> .............................................................................
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