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
> >
> >  
>
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