Can i playing VCD on iMac Intel Core Duo?

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Can i playing VCD on iMac Intel Core Duo?

Hi everybody! I'm a newbie. I first time touching Macintosh.
It's my problems:
I can't playing VCD on my new Macs (20" iMac Intel Core Duo) when I'm using DVD Player, QuickTime, Windows Media Player. Have other way to playback Video CD?

Thx
Kelvin's

20" iMac Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.5), 250GB Hard Drive 1GB DDR2 SDRAM 128MB ATI Radeon X1600

Posted on Mar 25, 2006 2:12 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 25, 2006 4:15 AM in response to iMac Intel Core Duo _klv's

Have you tried a program called VLC? It normally plays about any format. Look it up on versiontracker.com

Glor

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2006 4:46 AM in response to Glorfindeal

Thx Glorfindeal. I want to know the older iMac G5 can playback VCD with Apple applications like QT, DVD Player, iTunes? Or all the Macs also need download other application to running it?

Thx for your advice.
Kelvin's

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Answer 3

d-mo

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Mar 25, 2006 6:34 AM in response to iMac Intel Core Duo _klv's

No I do not think any of the Mac applications can play the VCD format (Intel Core Duo or G5). Like the poster above has mentioned, you should try downloading VLC Media Player---it plays VCDs for sure, because this is what I use myself... and it's free!

Follow this link to download it and you should be playing your VCDs in no time: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738

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Answer 4

Mar 25, 2006 6:48 AM in response to d-mo

Thanks d-mo. I already try VLC Media Player, pretty good. But still don't know why Apple don't direct built in VCD playback software on Mac OS X...

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d-mo

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Mar 25, 2006 7:14 AM in response to iMac Intel Core Duo _klv's

Well, that's because VCDs are not exactly the format of choice compared to DVDs---maybe Apple feels that the advances in the future will come from DVDs. Remember the original iMacs that did not include a floppy drive and nothing but USB ports? That was quite a shock to users back then but it turned out to be the right move.

That should give you an indication that Apple is always betting on the latest technology even if it is not necessarily the popular choice.

(By the way, if any of these replies have helped you in any way, you can mark them as 'helpful' or 'solved'. this helps other users in finding solutions to similar problems easier---not to mention earning the people who replied some 'points'!)

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Answer 6

Bill_R

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Mar 25, 2006 10:54 AM in response to iMac Intel Core Duo _klv's

Playing a Video Compact Disc (VCD)
A Video Compact Disc (VCD) holds more than a compact disc, but less than a DVD. The video stored on a VCD is of a lower quality than video on a DVD, and similar to the quality of video on a VHS videotape. Because VCD video is encoded in MPEG-1 format, you can't use DVD Player in Mac OS X version 10.3 to play a VCD. Instead, use QuickTime Player to view the contents of a VCD.

Insert a VCD in the optical drive of your computer.
Open QuickTime Player, located in the Applications folder.
Choose File > "Open Movie in New Player."
Navigate to the VCD.
Open the MPEGAV folder.
Open the file that ends with ".DAT."
When the movie opens in a new QuickTime Player window, click the Play button to play the movie.

To play Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), you must use third-party software such as Video LAN Client. You can find information about this software at www.videolan.org.

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