How do I use a CD-i disc on a PC?
Short answer: you don’t, unless you have a CD-i add-on board. Even if you have a CD reader compatible with the CD-i (Green Book) standard, there are still a number of obstacles in your way. The filesystem used isn’t ISO-9660, and CD-i players are based around a 680×0 CPU and have special hardware for video and audio. Longer answer: it depends on what kind of disc it is, and what you mean by “use”. PhotoCD and VideoCD discs are CD-ROM/XA “Bridge Format” discs that play on CD-i players as well as dedicated players and computers. These use the ISO-9660 file system, and can be read with commonly available PhotoCD software and MPEG-1 players. DigitalVideo discs from Philips manufactured before June, 1994 are in CD-i format, not VideoCD format. If your CD-ROM drive supports raw 2352-byte sector reads, it’s possible to pull tracks off of a Green Book format disc, and extract audio or MPEG video data. You can get a CD-i filesystem for Windows from http://www.icdia.org/articles/filesystem.html.
(2000/10/24) Short answer: you don’t, unless you have a CD-i add-on board. Even if you have a CD reader compatible with the CD-i (Green Book) standard, there are still a number of obstacles in your way. The filesystem used isn’t ISO-9660, and CD-i players are based around a 680×0 CPU and have special hardware for video and audio. Longer answer: it depends on what kind of disc it is, and what you mean by “use”. PhotoCD and VideoCD discs are CD-ROM/XA “Bridge Format” discs that play on CD-i players as well as dedicated players and computers. These use the ISO-9660 file system, and can be read with commonly available PhotoCD software and MPEG-1 players. DigitalVideo discs from Philips manufactured before June, 1994 are in CD-i format, not VideoCD format. If your CD-ROM drive supports raw 2352-byte sector reads, it’s possible to pull tracks off of a Green Book format disc, and extract audio or MPEG video data. You can get a CD-i filesystem for Windows from http://www.icdia.org/articles/fil
Short answer: you don’t, unless you have a CD-i add-on board. Even if you have a CD reader compatible with the CD-i (Green Book) standard, there are still a number of obstacles in your way. The filesystem used isn’t ISO-9660, and CD-i players are based around a 680×0 CPU and have special hardware for video and audio. Longer answer: it depends on what kind of disc it is, and what you mean by “use”. PhotoCD and VideoCD discs are CD-ROM/XA “Bridge Format” discs that play on CD-i players as well as dedicated players and computers. These use the ISO-9660 file system, and can be read with commonly available PhotoCD software and MPEG-1 players. DigitalVideo discs from Philips manufactured before June, 1994 are in CD-i format, not VideoCD format. If your CD-ROM drive supports raw 2352-byte sector reads, it’s possible to pull tracks off of a Green Book format disc, and extract audio or MPEG video data. VCD PowerPlayer from CyberLink (http://www.cyberlink.com.tw/) can play CD-i movies directly o
(2008/05/21) Short answer: you don’t, unless you have a CD-i add-on board. Even if you have a CD reader compatible with the CD-i (Green Book) standard, there are still a number of obstacles in your way. The filesystem used isn’t ISO-9660, and CD-i players are based around a 680×0 CPU and have special hardware for video and audio. Longer answer: it depends on what kind of disc it is, and what you mean by “use”. PhotoCD and VideoCD discs are CD-ROM/XA “Bridge Format” discs that play on CD-i players as well as dedicated players and computers. These use the ISO-9660 file system, and can be read with commonly available PhotoCD software and MPEG-1 players. DigitalVideo discs from Philips manufactured before June, 1994 are in CD-i format, not VideoCD format. If your CD-ROM drive supports raw 2352-byte sector reads, it’s possible to pull tracks off of a Green Book format disc, and extract audio or MPEG video data. You can get a CD-i filesystem for Windows from http://www.icdia.org/articles/fil
