VLC for MACOSX

[Johan Bilien]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002, David Nedrow wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002, Johan Bilien wrote:
> >In fact VCD access is already done for linux, it only nead an MacOS X port.
> >I my have a look if I find documentation on how cdroms are handled, and if
> >someone can help me test it.
> 
> I think you'll have trouble with this, as Mac OS X does >not< support CDROM-XA
> which is the format used by VCD, SVCD, and XVCD. This is a major irritation
> for many Mac users who have upgraded to OS X. OS 9 had support for CDROM-XA.
> It's anybody's guess as to why Apple dropped the ball on this.
> 

I had the same problem under Linux, but a ioctl call was implemented
by the kernel to read CDROM-XA sectors one by one, I hope to find the
equivalent under other OSs.

-- 
Jobi

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