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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