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Article #58Re: VideoCDs problem: From the AHA2940? From the Millenium? From the pioneer CD?
From: Daniel Kao
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:28
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:28
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There are severe compatibility problems right now w/ some SCSI drives and drivers with playback of VideoCD formats. Microsoft and the other major companies are aware of the problem, and are trying to fix it. The only way to fix it is to get a list of compatible SCSI CD-ROM drivers and adapters, or to purchase an EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. --Dan ............................................................................ - Daniel Kao E-mail: kao@u.washington.edu University of Washington Web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kao Haggett Hall North 508 Phone: (206) 934-7051 If you would like to video teleconference with me with either CU-SeeMe or Connectix VideoPhone, please e-mail me for an appointment. Thank you! ............................................................................ On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Marco Ullasci wrote: > I'm unable to play VideoCDs from Philips (not CDIs). > I have an adaptec 2940 with EZ-SCSI 3.11L, an MGA Millenium with bios > 1.9 and 4megs and a Pioneer DR-U124X-4 (SCSI). > I've tried both the adaptec cdrom driver and the pioneer dr60asp.sys > with the single disk option, I've installed the Compcore Softpeg from > the Matrox CD ver 1.02, but I'm able to get only errors. > With W95 I get an unknown error in mmsystem and the mmplayer dies in > W31 I get a GPF in the module <unknown> and then mplayer dies or I'm > trown out of windows. > Compcore softpeg works fine with the mpeg file that came with the MGA > cdrom. > I was able only once to read the titles from the video cd for about > 3/4 seconds, but it never appened again. > Please help me! > TIA > Marco. > P.S. please pay attention this article is cross posted in 3 newsgroup > (video, cdrom, scsi). > > >
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!saul7.u.washington.edu!kao From: Daniel Kao <kao@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: VideoCDs problem: From the AHA2940? From the Millenium? From the pioneer CD? Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:28:09 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91l.960203152647.3588B-100000@saul7.u.washington.edu> References: <4ed01s$hdq@mikasa.iol.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: saul7.u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kao In-Reply-To: <4ed01s$hdq@mikasa.iol.it>