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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:09:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (Masahiro SEKIGUCHI)
Cc:        hasty@netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cdrom & mpeg?
Message-ID:  <199504270109.SAA14075@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504270040.AA08099@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> from "Masahiro SEKIGUCHI" at Apr 27, 95 09:40:56 am

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ah if this is all true, then I know what to do....


> 
> 
> As far as I know, Video CD records MPEG data on "MODE2 FORM2"-typed
> sectors.  It has a different sector layout than Yellow book CD-ROM
> (MODE1) or CD-ROM XA (MODE2 FORM1).  Particularly, it has more than 2K
> bytes in a sector (approx. 2300 bytes, I'm not sure.)
> 
> I belive most of modern CD-ROM drives are capable of Video CD-type
> sectors, but you need a device driver which can handle it.  You also
> need a compatible filesystem, if you want to access an MPEG stream as
> a file.
> 
> Are the functions already integrated into FreeBSD drivers/filesystem?
> I have not looked into sources...
 no (not YET)
> 




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