[MPlayer-users] XCD

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:44:27AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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

I think by destroy the quality, he meant the fact that XCD lacks error
correction info, so if the CD gets scratched, you're pretty much out
of luck...

Rich