Sean Miller wrote: > On 12/31/07, *Sean Miller* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Couldn't you just start the VCD playing and at the appropriate > moments press "Print Screen"? > > Or is that too simple? > > > Sorry, missed a couple of posts... so the issue isn't getting the jpgs > it's actually getting the VCD to play? > > As far as I was aware a VCD is only a collection of MPGs.... these > will presumably be the larger of the files on the CD... I think the > .dat files. > > If you were to copy on of the .dats to your hard drive, rename it to > .mpg will it then open in mplayer or whatever? > > Then, perhaps, just use <print screen> to create your jpgs or pngs. > > Sean > I think people are getting confused here...
A VCD is a Video CD, it's physically a Compact Disk (storing up to 700MB), but it contains video files in MPEG1 format (i.e. they are OK but not as good quality as a DVD), with a specific (like DVD but different) directory structure. They were very popular across Asia before DVDs took off (though films were split across two discs due to the lower capacity of CD) but they never really took off in Europe (apart from the internet pirate types before the cost of blank DVDs dropped down to a usable price point). A lot of set top DVD player can play VCDs quite happily. A PhotoCD (which some people on here are thinking of) is a Kodak think that holds digitised photos normally from analogue file, which some DVD players can play. The confusion is further enhanced because a while back a video editing software company came up with a neat idea that photo slideshows could be put onto cheap VCDs, to add more functionality to their software. This is basically a kludge, as the JPEG photos are actually converted to a few seconds off (still) MPEG1 video (there are no JPEGs on the disc) with nice fades in between. More confusion is then added, because a lot of cheap DVD players now 'understand' CDs that are packed with JPEGs and display them as slide shows... confusing a lot people (but we'll leave my parents out of this:).... A lot of people don't get the difference between all these different formats... unsurprisingly... Lee -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
