From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 16 13:47:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA18880 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18874 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 13:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA05694; Fri, 16 May 1997 16:47:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:47:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199705162047.QAA05694@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.multimedia References: <5liddk$prh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.multimedia you write: >As Amancio Hasty wrote: >> 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. >I suppose that's yet another vendor-specific format (like CD-DA), >not covered by the SCSI-2 standard? >Is it covered by SCSI-3? One should be able to tell cdd to read the track as raw data and output it to stdout for processing by a videoCD application.. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich