Hi Everyone!

I have a simple question. When you put a Video CD in the CD-ROM drive on the PC, can you find filenames on the CD by clicking the drive letter? My understanding is that VCDs do not carry filesystems. Is it true? I recently saw a CD claimed to be a VCD, but when I put it in a PC, it had two MPEG files in it. I thought that VCD should not have a filesystem on it. Is that right? Can one play a CD with MPEG files on it on a VCD player?

Thanks Bye Muaz

-- Ahmad Muaz Qamar (muaz99@hotmail.com), May 03, 2001

Answers

Yes, you can find filenames on the VCD by clicking on the drive letter. VCDs do indeed carry file systems. The MPEG file will be found under the MPEGAV directory on the VCD. If there is no file system structure, I don't think the VCD player will recognize the disc. They all look for a MPEGAV directory so they know what to play.

-- Jason Shumate (Jason.Shumate@sita.int), May 03, 2001.

How did you know they were MPEG files? If they are named other than any of the ff: avseqxx.dat, musicxx.dat, or itemxx.dat, and they are not contained in any of these directories: MPEGAV or SEGMENT, then that is not a VCD. It's certainly possible that is an SVCD, where you can expect avseqxx.mpg files in either an MPEGAV or MPEG2 directory. You get it now VCDs DO have a filesystem with directories a PC can recognize, unlike a proprietary CD like PlayStation.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), May 05, 2001.