Trying to use vlc on os x

[Johan Bilien]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001, DJ RawheaD wrote:
> 
> great, thanks, now it's working!  Very nice.  Is there any way that I 
> can read .mpg files directly off of an SVCD disc?  OSX is able to mount 
> it but when I try to open the mpg files from vlc, I get a 'bus error'
> 

There is the same problem under Linux, VCD and SVCD use a special kind
of sectors (MODE2), and it is not supported by the kernel for classical
block reading. You have to use ioctl on your CDROM drive to read data
from those special tracks.

I've written a VCD input for Linux and I'm currently debugging it. I
guess it could be quite easily adapted to SVCD (MPEG2) and to other
OS (need to adapt ioctl calls). I'll commit it as soon as it doesn't
segfault any more ;-)


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Jobi