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Date:      Fri, 16 May 1997 02:41:07 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? 
Message-ID:  <199705160941.CAA00509@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 12:09:21 %2B0300." <199705160909.MAA22617@silver.sms.fi> 

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Hi Jordan, 

Omnimedia sells board which we have a driver for and Brian Litzinger wrote
an applicatio which is capable of playing back cdi and videocd.

Alternatively, if you can talk Brian to generate a library for his cdi player
we could then use it for players such as mtv.

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
> 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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