Mac OS X and VCDs

[KESSLER,JOHN (A-Japan,ex3)]

Jobi,

Many thanks. This at least gives me a good place to start. Apple seems to
have some good documentation on porting, so if its a matter of figuring out
to add the linux ioctl maybe its something I can look into. I'm not much of
a programmer, but if there's a reason to start up at it gain - hey, what the
heck.

Thanks again, and if I find anything groundbreaking I'll be sure to let you
know.
John

->-----Original Message-----
->From: Johan Bilien [mailto:jobi at via.ecp.fr]
->Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:52 PM
->To: vlc at videolan.org
->Subject: Re: Mac OS X and VCDs
->
->
->On Mon, Nov 26, 2001, KESSLER,JOHN (A-Japan,ex3) wrote:
->> I've been scouring the web for weeks trying to find out a 
->good answer to
->> what is preventing Mac OS X (10.1) from playing VCDs. It 
->can mount VCDs but
->> it can't play .dat files. It seems like you are the only 
->people around that
->> might be able to provide an answer. Can we expect VLC to 
->support VCDs on Mac
->> OS X, and when might that be? I'd love to use the software, 
->but I don't have
->> a DVD player and I just want to watch all the VCDs that 
->I've collected over
->> the years in Asia.
->
->I guess the problem is the same as the one on Linux : the 
->.dat files are
->located on the second and following tracks, which uses a 
->different type
->of sectors (MODE2). This type of tracks is not supported by the kernel
->for simple classical reading (it causes input/output errors), you have
->to use ioctl calls. That's what I have done for the VLC.
->
->In order to port it to Mac OS X, you would just have to adapt 
->the ioctl
->calls (in linux_cdrom_tools.c). But I don't know MacOS at all and I'm
->currently working on a DVB input.
->
->-- 
->Jobi
->
->