From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 29 8: 0:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A5637B43C for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA37701 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:00:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:00:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video CDs? In-Reply-To: <200008291331.PAA82473@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > It certainly can't do that, because LaserDisc is not covered by > Red Book. It's not even digital data. LaserDisc video is > analogue. You definitely need a real LaserDisc player for this. You must be thinking of the old, OLD, funny looking green "Video Discs". Those were analog. The "Laser Discs" that just look like large 12" CD's are indeed fully digital, both audio and video. Laser Discs are still big in the education area because they are used to hold a humungous number of easily accessable still pictures (when used with a special Laser Disc player with bar-code reader and barcoded image index), video clips (of course), and other neat interactive stuff. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message