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From: mk59200@cc.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka)
Date: 05 Aug 1994 11:44:25 GMT
Subject: Re: VideoCD
To: rec-music-gaffa@uunet.uu.net
In-reply-to: "Forward, Jonathan"'s message of Fri, 5 Aug 1994 00:37:53 -0400
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
References: <2E42DB16@msmail.trl.oz.au>
>>>>> "Forward," == Forward, Jonathan <JForward@SITGBSD1.TELECOM.com.au> writes:
> Graham - There was an article in the July 23rd New Scientist
> which said that some of the latest Video CDs can only be played
> on CD drives conforming to the new White Book Standard for CD
> players.
The Amiga CD32 should be able to play both "White Book" and CDi
videoCDs.
> Compatable Note: The discs will NOT play on a standard audio CD
> player The discs can only be used on players with Video CD /
> MPEG capability. [This means CDi, 3DO, Amiga CD32, PC's & Macs
> with MPEG ability]
> So... I suppose you want to now what the vid's are like??
> WELL SO DO I!! :-( I've got a Mac Quadra 800 all the RAM and HD
> space I need. I've got Sparkle v2.1 (for those that don' t know
> this is an MPEG player for the Mac)
Is this a _hardware_ MPEG decoder? Software decoders aren't fast enough
(although DEC claims a 275MHz Alpha can do it). Also, most software
players can't handle MPEG system (combined audio+video) bitstreams.
--
Markku Kolkka
mk59200@cc.tut.fi