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How to look at VCD on computer
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VCD player and play a VCD on computer
Both ways could play the VCD
Inside a VCD player, you put in the disk and it will play by itself
On a computer, if a VCD player software has been installed. After inserting the VCD into a CD-ROM drive, it could also start playing
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VCD file compression
VCD files are in MPEG-1 format while DVD files are in MPEG-2 format.
Data inside both of them are compressed, providing a feasible way of accommodation of huge amount of video data into a disk.
This is done by “throwing” away sight-insensitive details of the video files.
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VCD file structure
Usually in a normal VCD disk, there are some directories:
Mpegav Cdi Vcd
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Video files in VCD
Inside the VCD file structure, the ones that matter the video playing on computer are the DAT files inside the Mpegav directory
They are in Mpeg-1 video compression.
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VCD player
There are a lot of VCD player software available in market. The most popular one is the “Xing MPEG player”.
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Playing VCD on computer when no VCD player installed
If we don’t have VCD player installed on computer, it is still very easy to view a VCD - use the “Window Media Player” which automatically comes with the Windows system.
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How to use the Windows Media Player?
Press “開始” , “程式集” , “附屬應用程式” , “多謀體” , “Windows Media Player”.
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How to use the Windows Media Player?
Then open the file “Avseq01.dat” inside the Mpegav directory of the VCD disk and play.