[geeks] How do I play a VCD?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Aug 12 13:34:42 CDT 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:46:27PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> on 8/12/02 1:39 PM, Bill Bradford at mrbill at mrbill.net wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:33:15PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> >> Can I play this on my Laser Disc player?
> > 
> > No, put it in your DVD player.
> 
> I don't own a DVD player.
> 
> > or, play it on the Mac.
> 
> How? The Mac does not have a DVD drive.

It is just a CD.  VideoLan should work for you if nothing else does.
Some normal mpeg playing programs work, others refuse to work.  But
videolan on linux definately works, and they support MacOS X, so it
should work there also.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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