Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!uunet!sequent!guardian.up.edu!not-for-mail From: jiml@up.edu (Jim Little) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Reelmagic & CD-i Date: 10 May 1994 12:51:38 -0700 Organization: School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland OR Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2qooka$7a@upsun17.up.edu> References: <2qllt4$9jv@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: upsun17.up.edu In article <2qllt4$9jv@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, Don Thomson wrote: > > Please let me know if I can play a CD-i game on my Reelmagic system. I can watch a Cd-i movie OK (Phillips) but can not get my CD-ROM drive to read or acknowledge a recently purchased Phillips CD-i game. Thanks. [In the future, please break your lines into less than 80 characters. Thanks.] You've confused CD-i with MPEG. The Reelmagic board is an MPEG decoder... nothing more. (At least, that's how I understand it.) Those so-called 'CD-i movies' are NOT CD-i specific... they are MPEG encoded animations. The animations happen to be of movies. Anybody with a MPEG decoder, from the PC to the CD-32 to the CD-i can watch these movies. They aren't platform specific. On the other hand, CD-i games ARE platform specific. They incorporate more information than just MPEG encoded animations... therefore, your MPEG decoder (the Reelmagic board) can't read it. -Jim Little (jiml@up.edu)