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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: MPEG CD
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 19:36:05 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4egfml$8b7@serpens.rhein.de>
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") writes:
-
- >The format is not the same as the .MPG format for file-based MPEG streams
- >(as you'd find on the internet), and I've not seen anything except
- >highly-priced PC mastering software that will covert from that to White
- >Book.
-
- I must disagree. The files on a VideoCD (and also on the old CDi disks)
- are regular MPEG _system_ streams that multiplex video and audio information.
- I have no problems to read VideoCD and decode the contents. It is true that you
- usually find video-only streams on the Internet though.
-
- >It's a real pity that the old C= FMV card for the CD32 didn't play .MPG
- >files (in fact, I don't think it could. We spent a fair amount of time
- >doing low-level programming on it - the only way we could see to get it
- >to play .MPG files was by rewriting the firmware on the card!).
-
- Huh ? The unit plays MPEG files. You just need a program that feeds the
- driver with data (the driver itself accepts data from a client or directly
- from the cd.device).
-
- >The
- >quality of that unit is better than any other FMV card I've seen on any
- >system....
-
- It uses standard C-Cube and LSI chips, same as the PeggyPlus card I am using
- with same results. Other systems use the same or chipsets from other manufacturers.
- The results or about the same although the newer chips are simpler to use.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
- Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
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