Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 12:09:21 +0300 (EEST) From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? Message-ID: <199705160909.MAA22617@silver.sms.fi> In-Reply-To: <2239.863759183@time.cdrom.com> References: <2239.863759183@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > And I'm not talking about the new DVD stuff, I'm talking about > the older Video CD "standard" which was promulgated by Phillips > and others. > > I can play these CDs just fine in my CD-I player (with hardware MPEG > decoder plugged in the back) but it's a PAL device, it runs off of > 220V and, basically, I'd much rather view them on my FreeBSD box if I > could. :-) > > So, anyone have any clues for me? I used to not even be able to read > their funny record size before, but I think that the new Plexstore > 12CS drive I have (or, at the very least, my HP 4020i) should be > able to handle that if I can find some sort of software for handling > the decompression. > Most of the video CD's are actually ISO9660 formatted stuff (at least most of the ones I've run into, though my exposure is limited to about 10 disks). So you have one large mpeg system stream in /MPEGAV/ subdirectory which is playable with players that play mpeg system streams. Pete
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