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pcruthven

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#72704 1-Dec-2010 16:18
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I've got some OLD pre DVD movies here and some are VCD which play fine on my DVD player (but not BluRay).  And I also have some CD-i Video CD's which I can not get to play on any DVD/BluRay or various media players for Windows including VLC.

Any ideas where I could get a CD-i player?  I have tried searching the net but no luck so far :(

(This is not life critical... but would be nice to view the old movies again.... I once had a CD-i/VCD player add-in card for an old Win95 PC that is long since dead... and the card if I remember correctly was VISA Local Bus)

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Jaxson
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  #411939 2-Dec-2010 09:25
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Can you get to the actual files on the disk if you put in a computer?

If so you might be able to change the format into DVD etc? Sorry don't know anything about this format.



pcruthven

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  #412352 3-Dec-2010 08:30
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It is possible to read and convert VCD's to mepg fine...

But for CD-i Disks you need a player.  This is form wiki:  "This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players. It does this by omitting the tracks from the disc's Table of Contents. This causes audio CD players to skip the CD-i data tracks."

All the PC's I've tried reading the disks on cant seem to read the data on the disk either.

Oh well.... Old tech now... Just as bad as those early 90's Music CD's which had proprietary Video content which would only load on Win 3.11 or Win95!!

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