[vlc] Re: trouble playing VCD

Wed Jul 7 03:57:15 CEST 2004

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

>No errors from VCD Builder.

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?

>Correct

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

>Panther. 1GB. Also fails to play in same way on Windows 2K with same versions of VLC.
I have now tested both VCDs (made completely with Toast and with VCD+Toast) and both play fine on a DVD player.  

Ira

> 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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