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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: rattler on July 23, 2003, 01:55:37 am

Title: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: rattler on July 23, 2003, 01:55:37 am

just wondering if there will be support for svcds and vcds in 9.0 or 9.1?
if not does anyone know how i can play vcds or svcds?
i have tried to just cue up the ".dat" files but it wont do anything.

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: sdgrizdan on July 23, 2003, 04:54:35 pm

i too am looking forward to VCD support. For this to be an all around media center, i think vcd playback is not a far fetched request

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: AndyCircuit on July 24, 2003, 12:17:48 pm

I have to play all my .dat files with WinDVD.  :'(

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: sraymond on July 24, 2003, 01:24:37 pm

Count me among those who'd benefit from VCD implementation!

Scott-

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: LonWar on July 24, 2003, 01:41:09 pm

As do I...
I have a lot of home movies on digital tape and would like to convert and play SVCD

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: graham131 on July 24, 2003, 03:38:45 pm

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just wondering if there will be support for svcds and vcds in 9.0 or 9.1?
if not does anyone know how i can play vcds or svcds?
i have tried to just cue up the ".dat" files but it wont do anything.

Guys ,

A thread a couple of day s ago discussed this.

http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=MediaCenter;action=display;num=1058700186

The problem is that the .dat extension is also used by sytem files etc and has caused issues in the past.

Graham

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: JimH on July 24, 2003, 03:42:56 pm

True, Graham, and thanks for answering, but I think we will need to do something to solve this problem soon.  Maybe we will add the dat file type but not turn it on for import unless the user specifically checks it.

People have reported that renaming dat files as mpg files works.  It's also possible to modify the registry entry for what file types MC supports.

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: escaflo on July 24, 2003, 09:20:39 pm

Renaming .dat file to .mpg to indeed work. I am also been hoping for the implementation of support for VCDs for a while already. :) Hope this gets support real soon.

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: dmbfan36 on July 28, 2003, 06:42:06 pm

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People have reported that renaming dat files as mpg files works.  It's also possible to modify the registry entry for what file types MC supports.

Yup renaming it works.. I reported this in early beta versions of 9.1... but could you shed some light on what the registry setting is?  where it is in the registry... it'd be nice if we had an advanced option to manually add media types or something...

Thanks

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: escaflo on September 20, 2003, 11:35:46 am

*Bump*

I really do hope that someone is actually to looking at implementing this?

Been waiting for this for quite a long while.

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: rattler on September 20, 2003, 03:20:13 pm

I'm still eargerly looking through the changes in the 9.1 betas everytime they are released for those magic words.. "vcd/svcd support".
im sure they'll pop up soon..
hint hint

;D ;)

Title: Re: will there be support for svcds and vcds?
Post by: slikvik on September 22, 2003, 04:04:33 am

I would like this also.

Can I just say that the dat extension being a system extension shouldn't matter if MC9 added VCD support.

VCD's and SVCD's have a particular folder structure similar to a DVD which allows them to be played in settop players and some DVD software. You would just need MC9 to detect a VCD disc based on these contents and then play either the .dat (VCD) or .mpg (SVCD.)

The would be no need to browse to and specifically play a .dat file.

Cheers

Vic