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[vdr] Re: vcd plugin



Also sprach Christoph Gohle zu "27.03.2004 16:38" Anno Domini:
Florian Ottillinger wrote:

Hi everybody!

I have a problem with the vcd-plugin. I use the newest version 0.0.6c and vdr 1.2.6.
Some VCD's and SVCD's are only played back in black white mode. I can watch the
movie but with no color.

The problem is probably, that those VCD's were recorded with NTSC-Resolution and your tv is not capable of NTSC. I have the same problem. The only solution i know is, to watch it on your Computer screen using mplayer.

Or use the mplayer plugin together with the correctly configured mplayer.sh script from Juri Haberland (be sure to disable NTSC-support and configure the vcd-dummy-entry correctly!) to watch the VCD on your vdr machine! :-)

I also tried to play the file in the MPEG2 dir of a SVCD via mplayer, but no success.
Seems that mplayer cannot handle that file format or what am i doing wrong?

mplayer can only read the vcd in it's vcd mode if i remember it right (take a look at the docs)

That's right, but not mplayer's fault. Actually linux cannot natively "mount" the data part of a (s)vcd, only the "TOC" part. Windows(TM) "mounts" the "TOC" part of a vcd and does "on-the-fly" extraction of the data part when playing/copying the files in the MPEG2 directory. You might use the cdfs driver to do on-the-fly extraction on linux, similar to Windows!

CU/all
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