I have a recent Toshiba DVD player that will not play VCDs, but my cdrom on my linux box will with Mtv and ZZplayer. I did not know that a DVD player could play VCDs, maybe mine is not designed for it. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Al Baker wrote: > > VCD (video CD) was a brief moment between VHS and DVD. > DVD players will play yer VCD's, CD players might > play VCDs but not DVDs. > > --- Bill Piety <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi - though I've read about VCD's I've never > > actually seen one. It's mpeg-2 based > > now, I believe, but doesn't seem to have made any > > inroads in my area (New > > Orleans). However, thru my near-total lack of info > > on VCD I could be missing > > quite a bit. > > > > Balaji Ramani wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 19 December 2000 11:08, you wrote: > > > > Good morning. I downloaded & installed the US > > 0.3.2 & played a test file > > > > from a rental movie-CD. 1st time it played with > > sound, then later error > > > > messages re: OSS and no sound. As below, I've > > been using ALSA (which has > > > > started doing mysterious things, but that's > > another issue). Is your RPM a > > > > 586 of the 0.3.2 US or the full DVD encrypted > > playback as per the European > > > > version? If that's the case - you are surely the > > man of the hour :) 2nd, is > > > > your rpm 7.2 specific or compat with 7.1? > > > > > > I complied the RPM on a Celeron (so it is a 586 > > RPM). I have played a VCD > > > and it was fine, the only problem being that I > > could not play full screen. I > > > don't have a DVD drive, so that avoids a whole lot > > of problems. ;-) > > > > > > As for sound, I use the OSS driver and did not > > have any problems. > > > > > > Balaji > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing > > list. > > > begin:vcard > > n:Piety;Bill > > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > > adr:;;;;;; > > version:2.1 > > email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > fn:Bill Piety > > end:vcard > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing > > list. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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