[MPlayer-users] XCD

[Michael Waters]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 22:22 +0100, David Holm wrote:
> > Jesus, why are you all obsessed of XCD? Burn an AVI/etc to CD in mode2,
> > then mplayer /dev/cdrom
> > It should be the same shouldn't it, in Unix spirit.
> 
> Or buy a dvd which supports divx instead of destroying the quality of the 
> movie. (Yes, there are dvds which play divx now)

Maybe I misunderstand you but XCD doesn't degrade the quality of a
divx.  XCD is just a way of making a 800mb mpeg4 file instead of 700mb
and fitting it on a 80min CD.  The ones I've come across are xvid mpeg4
+ ogg vorbis sound inside an OGM container.  People are using the extra
100mb to encode the file at a higher video bitrate.  They're typically
offered as .bin or .dat files .  mplayer can play the resulting XCDs; I
was just asking if anyone knew a way of playing the .bin or .dat file
before it's burned as an XCD.  If not, no big deal.