SVCD Success in Mac OS X

[Johan Bilien]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002, Tim Anderson wrote:
> 
> With a helpful suggestion and some trial-and-error, I did manage to
> successfully play an SVCD in Mac OS X. I hope this helps anyone else
> struggling with the same problem. The critical information is that vlc is
> unable to play an SVCD directly from the disc.

Could you post a the output of a vlc -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv vcd: ?
I don't have any SVCD.


> My next biggest problem was getting the mpeg2 file off the CD. I don't know
> if this is encoding specific or not, because I've only attempted one set of
> SVCDs so far. Each attempt, whether in the finder, terminal, or Mac OS 9,
> led to an IO error message saying some data could not be written. Usually
> the resulting file was about a megabyte. The disc had worked fine on a
> Windows PC, so this lead me to try Virtual PC. This finally worked. I was
> able to copy the mpeg2 file from the CD in Windows and then drag that file
> to my desktop. 

As the Linux one, MacOS X kernel does not seem to be able to read SVCD
movie tracks, which have longer sectors. Windows' one can. That's why
the VCD input uses ioctl calls.

-- 
Jobi

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