[vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD

[Terry Jackson]

That is strange...Did you receive any error messages from VCD Builder
( misalignment in the audio, Video stream having duplicate frames, etc.)?

Also I noticed you are adding playlist from Drive 1 (vcd://D:@1)
Usually my VCDS pull from drive 3, which is my internal CD on my G4 Mac.

And you are doing the following:
Inserting the VCD into the internal drive
Launching VLC, selecting -->File-->open Disc
At the "open Source" window, you are selecting VCD, and it shows
the /dev/rdisk3 or /dev/rdisk4 as the destination device that is
where the VCD is
and you click "Ok" and it doesn't play?

Strange....What operating system are you on on the Mac?
Panther, Jaguar? How much RAM?

> From: "Ira Fuchs" <IHF at mellon.org>
> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:39:39 -0400
> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
> 
> OK, I recreated the disk using VCD Builder and then burned it with Toast. The
> result is the same.
> 
> Messages are:
> 
> main debug: adding playlist item `vcd://D:@1' ( vcd://D:@1 )
> main debug: creating new input thread
> main: playlist item `vcd://D:@1'
> main debug: waiting for thread completion
> main debug: access `vcd', demux `', name `D:@1'
> main debug: looking for access module
> main debug: probing 1 candidate
> main debug: thread 2912 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:326)
> vcd debug: using winNT/2K/XP ioctl layer
> vcd debug: p_sectors: 0, 0
> vcd debug: p_sectors: 1, 452
> vcd debug: p_sectors: 2, 237751
> vcd error: could not read entry points sector
> vcd warning: could not read entry points, will not use them
> main debug: using access module "vcd"
> main debug: looking for demux module
> main debug: probing 1 candidate
> ps warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing
> main debug: looking for mpeg-system module
> main debug: probing 1 candidate
> main debug: using mpeg-system module "mpeg_system"
> main debug: selecting ES 0xe0
> main debug: looking for decoder module
> main debug: probing 22 candidates
> main debug: using decoder module "libmpeg2"
> main debug: thread 2956 (decoder) created at priority 0
> (src/input/input_dec.c:161)
> main debug: selecting ES 0xc0
> main debug: looking for decoder module
> main debug: probing 22 candidates
> main debug: using decoder module "mpeg_audio"
> main debug: thread 2980 (decoder) created at priority 2
> (src/input/input_dec.c:161)
> main debug: dumping stream ID 0x0 [OK:0/D:0]
> main debug: seekable stream, position: 0/551482876 (-:--:--/-:--:--)
> main debug: dumping program 0x0, version 0 (partial)
> main debug: ES 0xbe, stream 0xbe, fourcc `    ', not selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
> main debug: ES 0xe0, stream 0xe0, fourcc `mpgv', selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
> main debug: ES 0xc0, stream 0xc0, fourcc `mpga', selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
> main debug: using demux module "ps"
> 
> I'll try and see if they play on a DVD player that plays other VCD disks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ira
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf
> Of Terry Jackson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:24 PM
> To: VLC Mailing List
> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
> 
> 
> Last step, try re-authoring the disc.
> I would highly recommend using VCD Builder 1.13 on the mac,
> that way you rule out Toast as the authoring app, and
> leave it only as the "burning to cd" component.
> 
> VCDBuilder is simple to use, and will generate the build
> (XAFormat, .bup and .ifo file structure) properly
> to insure (wide) compatibility. Plus, it has a
> different audio and  video component checker than Toast,
> which may enable to catch any (so far) unseen errors.
> 
> go to versiontracker.com to get it....
> 
>> From: "Ira Fuchs" <IHF at mellon.org>
>> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
>> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:06:00 -0400
>> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
>> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
>> 
>> The .mpg works fine with QT6.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf
>> Of Terry Jackson
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:15 PM
>> To: VLC Mailing List
>> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
>> 
>> 
>> does it play fine in QuickTime Pro 6?
>> IF not, then it needs to be demuxed and re-authored
>> into a valid MPEG file.
>> 
>> I always test my MPGs first by making sure they are QT
>> compatible first, before authoring to VCD/SVCD.
>> If they do not pass QT, then I demux using ffmpegx,
>> then re-author using QT Pro.
>> 
>> Then I build using Toast or VCD Builder to insure compatible
>> structure.
>> 
>>> From: "Ira Fuchs" <IHF at mellon.org>
>>> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:53:42 -0400
>>> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
>>> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
>>> 
>>> I'm using Toast 6.0.3. The source was an .mpg file. As I said, it runs fine
>>> on
>>> VLC 0.5.3 but not on .7.2 on either the Mac or Windows.
>>> 
>>> Ira
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org]On Behalf
>>> Of Terry Jackson
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:30 PM
>>> To: VLC Mailing List
>>> Subject: [vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You say the VCD was created in Toast.
>>> Which version, 5x or 6x?
>>> The original source material was what specifically,
>>> an .avi, a .mov, or .mpg from the internet?
>>> Also, the audio is showing to be somewhat suspect...
>>> What was the audio originally, AIFF, MP3, or WMA?
>>> 
>>> So far, VCDs do play in 0.72 on a Mac running Panther 10.3.4,
>>> yet the only issue with them is that they will not go to the next chapter
>>> automatically on a SVCD. You must manually advance them...
>>> 
>>>> From: "Ira Fuchs" <IHF at mellon.org>
>>>> Reply-To: vlc at videolan.org
>>>> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:02:56 -0400
>>>> To: <vlc at videolan.org>
>>>> Subject: [vlc] trouble playing VCD
>>>> 
>>>> I am attempting to play a VCD created using Toast.  This disk will play
>>>> using
>>>> a very old version of VLC 0.5.3 on Linux but when I try to play it using
>>>> .7.2
>>>> on aMac or Windows system it does not play and I get the following
>>>> messages:
>>>> main debug: adding playlist item `vcd://D:@1' ( vcd://D:@1 )
>>>> main debug: creating new input thread
>>>> main: playlist item `vcd://D:@1'
>>>> main debug: waiting for thread completion
>>>> main debug: access `vcd', demux `', name `D:@1'
>>>> main debug: looking for access module
>>>> main debug: probing 1 candidate
>>>> main debug: thread 2912 (input) created at priority 1
>>>> (src/input/input.c:326)
>>>> vcd debug: using winNT/2K/XP ioctl layer
>>>> vcd debug: p_sectors: 0, 0
>>>> vcd debug: p_sectors: 1, 801
>>>> vcd debug: p_sectors: 2, 238055
>>>> vcd error: could not read entry points sector
>>>> vcd warning: could not read entry points, will not use them
>>>> main debug: using access module "vcd"
>>>> main debug: looking for demux module
>>>> main debug: probing 1 candidate
>>>> ps warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing
>>>> main debug: looking for mpeg-system module
>>>> main debug: probing 1 candidate
>>>> main debug: using mpeg-system module "mpeg_system"
>>>> main debug: selecting ES 0xe0
>>>> main debug: looking for decoder module
>>>> main debug: probing 22 candidates
>>>> main debug: using decoder module "libmpeg2"
>>>> main debug: thread 2956 (decoder) created at priority 0
>>>> (src/input/input_dec.c:161)
>>>> main debug: selecting ES 0xc0
>>>> main debug: looking for decoder module
>>>> main debug: probing 22 candidates
>>>> main debug: using decoder module "mpeg_audio"
>>>> main debug: thread 2980 (decoder) created at priority 2
>>>> (src/input/input_dec.c:161)
>>>> main debug: dumping stream ID 0x0 [OK:0/D:0]
>>>> main debug: seekable stream, position: 0/551378296 (-:--:--/-:--:--)
>>>> main debug: dumping program 0x0, version 0 (partial)
>>>> main debug: ES 0xbe, stream 0xbe, fourcc `    ', not selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
>>>> main debug: ES 0xe0, stream 0xe0, fourcc `mpgv', selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
>>>> main debug: ES 0xc0, stream 0xc0, fourcc `mpga', selected [OK:0/ERR:0]
>>>> main debug: using demux module "ps"
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone please tell me how I can play this disk or what the problem
>>>> might
>>>> be?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ira
>>>> 
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