Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!amsgate.ams.com.sg!amsgate.ams.com.sg!not-for-mail From: slim@amsgate.ams.com.sg (Lim Sau Tsien) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.video Subject: Re: Reel Magic Card - how to play VideoCD's Followup-To: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.video Date: 12 May 1994 16:37:17 +0800 Organization: Asia Matsushita Electric (S) Pte Ltd Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2qsprt$klt@amsgate.ams.com.sg> References: <2qpaj9$c3f@amsgate.ams.com.sg> <2qpg14$3fh@nuscc.nus.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: amsgate.ams.com.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ee Poh Khiam Lincoln (fbap3010@leonis.nus.sg) wrote: : Lim Sau Tsien (slim@amsgate.ams.com.sg) wrote: : : Laurence Chiu (lchiu@crl.com) wrote: : : : Out of interest, I hear the Reel Magic card allows you to play the : : : new MPEG compressed VideoCD's. If you have a compatible CDROM drive : : : and a VGA card with the right passthru connector, plus the Reel : : : Magic card itself, what software do you use to play the VideoCD's? : : Yes. All CDROM/XA drive can be used to play VideoCD. Two software is : : provided by ReelMagic to play VideoCD, a small test program and : : the MCI driver. The MCI driver is the recommended one and when : : installed will enable the Media Player (mplayer) of windows to : : play even CD-I titles (provided that you have CD-I capable drive such : : as the Sony CDU-33A drive with ROM version BC or better). : I've managed to get VideoCD's to play on the ReelMagic but have not been : able to get CD-I (I've only tried "Smithsonian" actually) running. : I rationalized that "real" CD-I titles actually have RTOS code that needs : to be run by an actual CD-I machine to give you the "interactive" features : and therefore there was no way to run that off a PC without some kind : of 68x00 emulation. Am I mistakened and missed something here? I have no idea what "Smithsonian" CD-I is and thus cannot elaborate on it. However, I am able to playback CD-I digital video titles such as "Hunt for Red October", "Start Trek VI" and "Bonjovi" music videos. : Regards. slim... -- Lim, Sau-Tsien AV/Information Research Center Asia Matsushita Electric e-mail: slim@ams.com.sg Addr: BLK 1022 Hougang Ave 1 Tel: (65)381-5486 #04-3526 Tai Seng Industrial Estate Fax: (65)285-7237 Singapore 1953