VCD (Video CD) Standard

This chapter provides notes and tutorials on movie VCD (Video CD) discs. Topics include VCD standard, file directory structure, playing VCD with Windows Media Player, DAT video file format.

What Is VCD?

Movie VCD File Directory Structure

File Directory Structure on an Example Movie VCD

Playing Movie VCD with Windows Media Player

Playing DAT Files with Windows Media Player

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

VCD (Video CD) Standard

 DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

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