davidn(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 4th February 2002, 10:55
Hi, Have had the oppertunity to try my older VCD,s on these players. These are from the Philips CDi days. (mpeg 1) Most are movies, a few music videos.
Half load and automatically start to play. The other mostly stay at the `loading` stage. 1or 2 only load, and display, displays the zero starting possition but does not start to play, have press play to no effect. Anyway I can kick start, and also get loading to complete?
No difference in results between 750 or 1000 models.
RE: Old VCD`s on Pacific DVD Players
MicoMan(Elite) posted this on Monday, 4th February 2002, 17:09
you should be able to copy the Mpeg file off the disc and re-burn as a standard VCD.
Is there a folder labled Mpegav with a big dat file in?
RE: Old VCD`s on Pacific DVD Players
Mike G(Elite) posted this on Monday, 4th February 2002, 17:12
Some older Philips so-called "Video CDs" are actually in the proprietary CD-i format, rather than proper VCD format. This was a cynical ploy by Philips to keep certain movies "CD-i exclusive".
Look at the disc packaging and label - if it says "CD-i" rather than "Video CD", then it won`t play on any DVD player or standard VCD player. (You should be able to play it on a PC though.)
Mike
RE: Old VCD`s on Pacific DVD Players
davidn(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 5th February 2002, 11:11
Yes the 2 piles are like that. The ones that play are marked Video CD The ones that do not DigitalVideo on CD-i
The one exception is Four Weddings and a Funeral marked as Video CD, this loads and display comes on at zero on the counter but does not start playing.
Pressing play as no effect, after a while chapter 1 turns to a number like 255.
I will therefore assume a faulty disc, unless you know a way to start it.
Trust Philips to do something different, as your last sentence. I still have the Cdi machine use it for audio CD`s, but was going to uppug it now I have the DVD player. Thanks.
