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Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? 
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And how are you proposing that he plays his CDI or VideCDs?

You see he will still be face with the problem of having a program
to extract the mpeg video stream off his CDI or VideoCDs.

In the case of the hardware decoder someone will have to write a
driver for it.

I just want to know what part of the following statement you don't
understand : 
"The way to bypass the Philips Dragonian licensing is to ask
Brian to write a library api for the code he has to decode
CDI and VideoCD."

>From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>  > 
>  > Either that or we've hit the language barrier again, I don't know
>  > which.  All I *do* know is that I'm now more confused about this than
>  > when we started, so I'll quit while I'm behind and put all these
>  > stupid video CDs back on the shelf, to wait for DVD. ;-)
>  > 
> Just pick up a DVD player (either external box or DVD ROM with a
> decoder card) from your favourite store. Creative's DVD-ROM with
> decoder card seems to be $499.
> 
> Pete