How to play a dual audio / video CD disc

[eholman]

Hello,

I have a CD which contains 4 audio tracks, and one Video CD track, and I have never been able to play the video on it. I've tried my computer and my DVD player with no luck. Both machines see just the 4 audio tracks, and don't make it to the video track.

The disc is Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" CD/Video CD, pictured at the bottom of this page:

http://www.tearsforfears.de/images/vcds/tffvideocds.html

Album art/details:
http://www.tearsforfears.de/images/vcds/ebuscdvf.jpg
http://www.tearsforfears.de/images/vcds/ebuscdvb.jpg

I've owned this stupid disk for 20 YEARS now, and I've never been able to play the video on it. Any tips???

EHolman

[yoda313]

Try isobuster and see if you can rip a .dat file off the disc. That will contain the mpg file for playback.

[eholman]

Okay, I loaded up isobuster and browsed the disk. The left hand panel only showed "Session 1" and the 4 audio tracks underneath it. It did not see the fifth video track.

I would guess that proceeding to rip a dat file wouldn't pick up anything more than that? Or does the dat rip process do more than just rip the session that the browser picks up?

[AlanHK]

Try VLC.
"Open Disc" and then choose "Disc type" as "VCD" which hopefully will force it to be read as that.

[jman98]

eholman - You are wrong. I know EXACTLY what you have. What you have is NOT VCD. That is very very important here. What you have is CD Video. It's a hybrid format that consists of up to 20 minutes of CD audio and has space for one 5 minute video track in laserdisc mode. It is NOT VCD! It has nothing to do with VCD. Here is a Wikipedia link on what you have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Video
Since this video track can only be played on laserdisc players, it cannot be ripped on any PC. There are no laserdisc compatible drives for PCs. It is not copy protected (nor are any laserdiscs) so it can be copied only by connecting the output of a laserdisc player to a video recording device of some kind (VCR, DVD recorder) or a video capture card on a PC.

Please do note the difference between VCD (Video CD) and CD Video as your post incorrectly called this a VCD which it is NOT and it caused several people to give you suggestions that will never work for you. The website you referred to is 100% wrong as this format was NEVER known anywhere as VCD. I see this all the time from people who don't know the difference.

[Cornucopia]

jman98 is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

What's more, the LD (video) portion is recorded ANALOG (as in "hills-and-valleys").

That website had the 1st title as "VCD", but unknowingly switched to CDV for the others (probably they did a misprint when the plagiarised it from the disc label). If you look at the jpg's of the disc labels, you can see that it says CDV or CD-Video. This is the technology from ~1986-7. It is technologically a precursor to Stamped multisession EnhancedCD's (but those are, of course, ALL DIGITAL). Both were, interestingly enough, called "Blue Book".

...Time to borrow a friend's LD player...

Scott

[eholman]

Very good. Thanks to jman98 and Cornucopia for setting me straight. My apologies for the incorrect terminology. Could be why my Google attempts were coming up empty.

I'm come away more knowledgeable. Thanks again.

eholman