Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 06:54:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? Message-ID: <199705161354.GAA04118@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 02:36:13 PDT." <5942.863775373@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan, we can play read both CDI and VideoCD. I wrote the original code to read CDI . Brian should be able to step in and explain again. the videocd format is not really ISO9660 compliant . yes, you can read the directory structure however the actual video stream is still pretty much Phillips format and in fact the blocks are not even 2048. Amancio >From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" : > > 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. > > Interesting. I first got "Star Trek IV, The undiscovered country" out > and saw that it was clearly labelled "CD-I" - not unsurprisingly, it > wouldn't mount as an ISO9660 volume (it'd still be nice to figure out > how to play it as it's my favorite disk, but hey - I know it was an > early rev of the spec :). Then I got "Addam's Family Values" which > is simply labelled as "Video CD" and, sure enough: > > root@time-> cd /cdrom > root@time-> ls > abstract.txt cdi mpegav > biblio.txt copyrigh.txt vcd > root@time-> ls -l mpegav/ > total 381380 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 768000 May 20 1994 avseq01.dat > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4933632 May 20 1994 avseq02.dat > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 384831488 May 20 1994 avseq03.dat > > So.. I then tried the new xanim on this and was rewarded with > the following on my console: > > cd0(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 Illegal mode for this track > cd0(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 Illegal mode for this track > > (xanim, of course, promptly said "bleah!"). > > "Hmmmm!" says I. I tried it then on the HP 4020i drive, using > the worm driver. No doggie bisquit for me: > > worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4d asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC > worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4e asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC > worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4d asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC > > Same basic problem. Any other ideas? ;-) > > Jordan
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