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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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The CDI and VideoCD stuff for all practical purposes behaves a lot like
CD DA . Is just that the CDROM format for CDI is a Philips thingy and
in the case of VideoCD the files are a Phlips thingy. The information is
proprieratory and we can get into trouble if we release source code.

In my case, I crack the CDI stuff and was fortunate enough that Brian's
company had a license so thru Omnimedia Brian was able to release his
CDI + VideoCD player.

So we can decode CDI or VideoCD via software and now days also play it
back using just software. For instance, if mtv had a library api to 
interface to CDI or VideoCD the Pentium Pros 200Mhs shouldn't have 
too much of problem playing back the mpeg streams.


	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" :
> > Jordan, we can play read both CDI and VideoCD. I wrote the original code
> > to read CDI . Brian should be able to step in and explain again.
> > the videocd format is not really ISO9660 compliant . yes, you can 
> 
> Erm.  This is with the hardware you mentioned, or some other way?
> As I pointed out, CDI isn't even close to being ISO9660 compliant,
> at least you can't mount one thusly.  How does one go about playing
> it then?
> 
> 					Jordan