Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 11:27:11 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: James da Silva <jds@TracerTech.COM> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDI Streams? Message-ID: <199612031927.LAA07546@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 14:21:30 EST." <199612031921.OAA07761@lex.tracertech.com>
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Hi, I decoded Video CDI and now what was done to tmplay to decode VideoCD. If you want the exact legal speak from Philips then I suggest that you contact Philips. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of James da Silva : > > The VideoCD format is propieratory. Philips claims that by putting ISO > > 9660 structure to the CDROM and then encoding the actual stream in their > > format that they have an open standard 8) > > I dunno - can we get a definitive statement about this from someone in the > know? > > I do know in my experience that at least one particular CDI movie (Live and > Let Die) contained one big file that was an MPEG system-layer stream, which > I was able to process using the usual mpeg tools under unix. It made for a > good test file for playing with MPEG. > > What I did was mount the CD under W95 and copy the file over to a unix disk > (that happened to be the most convenient setup for me), so the CD fs might > not have been straight iso9660, but the data file was definitely straight > MPEG system-layer. > > It also played very well using ATI's full screen software MPEG player for > W95 - a bit jerky on a P120, but the sound was great, and the effect on a > 20' monitor was good as long as you didn't sit too close. Popcorn anyone? > > Jaime > ............................................................................. .. > : jds@tracertech.com / Tracer Technologies, Inc. \ Stand on my shoulders, : > : James da Silva / Mass Storage Software Solutions \ not on my toes. :
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