13-11-2023, 07:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-11-2023, 07:22 PM by Mike Watterson.)
(13-11-2023, 06:11 PM)Mike Watterson Wrote: I found 3 discs
ST II and ST III are Video CD. The Linux box can see the files, but Celluloid doesn't understand the video format.
ST VI is oddly "Digital Video on CD-i". Linux caja filemanger can't see the filesystem!
ST II is labelled "CD-i Movies" in the corner of cover, but is a VCD.
The actual Video CDs (VCD) do play on Linux using VLC. The leaflet is © 1994 Philips
The Video Editing card with HW MPEG/MJPEG coding/decoding is in the attic, it's a huge ISA card and the VGA looped through it. It added PAL format video in a window on the VGA display and has various PAL input/outputs. I rather suspect that other than a PS1 with MPEG cartridge, or a rarer CD-i console or a suitable 386 with ISA slots and Win 3.1x (or maybe Win95) the ST IV is orphaned. CD-i Video doesn't seem to have used a standard CD-ROM format (High Sierra, ISO 9660).
The VCDs do play on my original 2003 Supervision 2500 DVD player (which plays SVCDs) and on a Sony DVD recorder with Firewire input.
The Panasonic BD player doesn't recognise VCD or CD-i.
The older cheap (€39 in Tesco) Philips BD player does play the VCDs, but "Unrecognised Disc Format" for CD-i Video.
The CD-i disc (ST VI) is unreadable on everything. The only date on it is the Paramount © 1991, which may not be pressing date, but OTOH the two earlier movies in the VCD format are © 1994 Paramount as well as © 1994 Philips.
All three editions "Made in Germany" on the disc.
