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From: acohen@cs.ucsd.edu (Ariel Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.multimedia,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Reading a CD-I Video CD and a source for MPEG movies
Date: 8 Aug 1994 17:43:33 GMT
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Hi,

   Has anyone tried reading a CD-I Video CD on a PC? I understand that
the videos are MPEG compressed and written on the CD in some special
CD-I format. Do I need a special CD-ROM drive to read this data (e.g.
Sony 33A); will I be able to do it with a Mitsumi or NEC? How can I
read the stuff off the CD? Will cdgrab work? Do I need the commercial
version of cdgrab that can read raw format?
   BTW, does anyone know of a source for MPEG compressed movies on
CD-ROM? I asked in a couple of places but no one seems to have them in
stock.

Thanks for any help,

Ariel