Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:58:23 +0300 (EEST) From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? Message-ID: <199705161158.OAA22997@silver.sms.fi> In-Reply-To: <5942.863775373@time.cdrom.com> References: <199705160909.MAA22617@silver.sms.fi> <5942.863775373@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Most of the video CD's are actually ISO9660 formatted stuff (at least > > most of the ones I've run into, though my exposure is limited to about > > 10 disks). So you have one large mpeg system stream in /MPEGAV/ > > subdirectory which is playable with players that play mpeg system > > streams. > > Interesting. I first got "Star Trek IV, The undiscovered country" out > and saw that it was clearly labelled "CD-I" - not unsurprisingly, it > wouldn't mount as an ISO9660 volume (it'd still be nice to figure out > how to play it as it's my favorite disk, but hey - I know it was an > early rev of the spec :). Then I got "Addam's Family Values" which > is simply labelled as "Video CD" and, sure enough: Unfortunately I've actually copied them over to the Freebsd's hard disk using win95 :-( I tried reading the disks I've with my solaris workstation and it seems to function ok. I'll try reading them with my home workstation which has Toshiba CD later today. > > (xanim, of course, promptly said "bleah!"). > Unfortunately some of the files might not be straight MPG system streams but encapsulated in RIFF CDXA format. xanim cannot deal with these. Pete
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