From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 29 10:22:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3C937B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7THMVM27254; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:22:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:22:31 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video CDs? Message-ID: <20000829102231.C24849@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200008291331.PAA82473@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:00:30AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:00:30AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > 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. No, LaserDiscs are mostly analog. Modern forms have digital audio tracks, but the video is always analog. There's some comparison info at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~leopold/Ld/VideoFormats.html. I remember using a number of those cool educational disks in Middle School and High School driven via a Mac with HyperCard. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message