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"Some" commercial Video-CD won't play

richard.mayer@richard-mayer
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#1 · 08/06/2025, 18:58
Quote from richard.mayer on 08/06/2025, 18:58

Hello,

I am completely new to the CD-i platform but I am very interested in retro-computing of the 80s and 90s.
I always liked the CD-i platform in a way and recenty found a good offer for a CDI210 device including a DVC.

The Device works (the CD-Reader is a bit picky - im planning to try to replace the CDM 12.04 Module) and for the fun of it, I got some commercial Video-CD.
And now comes the question: Many CD-i Video-CD play just fine but some of them (even the ones published by Philips) just display the copyright screen and then just sit there and nothing happens anymore.

Is this a common problem? The funny thing is, that it always seem to be the same copyright screen (see the attached screenshot). e.g. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Total Recall work, but The Naked Gun 1 and The Firm won't work.

Would be glad to get some input from someone who really knows the platform.

P.S. Self-Encoded Movies with TMPGEnc and Burned with Toast for Mac also work

Best Regards

Richard


Hello,

I am completely new to the CD-i platform but I am very interested in retro-computing of the 80s and 90s.
I always liked the CD-i platform in a way and recenty found a good offer for a CDI210 device including a DVC.

The Device works (the CD-Reader is a bit picky - im planning to try to replace the CDM 12.04 Module) and for the fun of it, I got some commercial Video-CD.
And now comes the question: Many CD-i Video-CD play just fine but some of them (even the ones published by Philips) just display the copyright screen and then just sit there and nothing happens anymore.

Is this a common problem? The funny thing is, that it always seem to be the same copyright screen (see the attached screenshot). e.g. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Total Recall work, but The Naked Gun 1 and The Firm won't work.

Would be glad to get some input from someone who really knows the platform.

P.S. Self-Encoded Movies with TMPGEnc and Burned with Toast for Mac also work

Best Regards

Richard

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