How are Video CD and CD-i related?
CD-i is an older format (“Green Book”) than Video CD (“White Book”). It supports interactive computer games as well as movies. You can play VCDs on a CD-i player, provided that it has the DV cartridge. But there’s about 30 movies released by Philips on CD-i which you can only play on a CD-i player, because they use the “Green Book” standard: you can’t play them on a VCD player or on a PC. These CDs are labelled “Digital Video” or “DV”. Peter Chang (pchang AT ix.netcom.com) writes that he has been able to play Green Book movies on his PC, using an older version of the XingMPEG player (1.3), but not with the latest version. Matthew Sparby (matthew AT sparby.nu) sent the following information by e-mail: CDi Videos (Green Book Video) is an older standard than VideoCD. It uses the same MPEG-1 encoding but it uses a different filesystem. The only dedicated hardware that can play these discs is a Philips/Magnavox CDi system with a Digital Video cartridge. Many people express an interest in be
