Whats the difference between a Video-CD and a Digital Video on CD-i disc?
In conjuction with the introduction of the Digital Video cartridge for CD-i players in 1993, Philips published some movies on CD that can be played on a CD-i player equiped with such a cartridge. Although the Video-CD specification already existed at that time, for some marketing-political reasons the movies were released in CD-i format instead of Video-CD. This means that the discs can only be played on CD-i players and not on Video-CD compliant players like Video-CD players, game consoles and most DVD-Video players. Although the discs looked very similar to ‘normal’ Video-CDs, Philips used several techniques to make them distinguish from Video-CDs: the physical sector locations of the video-files differs from Video-CD and the used file system is CD-i’s propietary format instead of ISO-9660 which is required for CD-i Bridge format discs like Video-CD. As a result, both playback devices that look for the MPEG-files to play them (such as PCs) and playback devices that are based on simpl
