VCD ON PLAYSTATION?

[VCDHookUP]

How do i get Vcd's t play on Playstation. I see you guys say something about an add on but i play vcd's on Dreamcast and the only thing i use is a boot disk(along with transporting the .dat file over to another program) but it's quite simple. so i was wondering is there a such thing for the playstation if there is please help be. Thank You

[Kdiddy]

nope you are out of luck..unless you buy th VCD add-on

[Type-E]

The VCD addon is really cheap, and the ps is a really good vcd player, 100x better than the DC

[timmy_boi]

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The VCD addon is really cheap, and the ps is a really good vcd player, 100x better than the DC
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realy? y is that? shoulnt the dreamcast be better? jus wonderin

[Type-E]

Because the PS one is a hardware addon while DC is using Software decoding which a bootCD. The DC version can be better, it is just that the developer didn't get it right. The only function it has is Play and Stop, you can't choose track and no foward or reverse.

[adam]

If your sick of all your psx games then by all means use your psx as a vcd player. But if you plan on playing those games 6 months from now then just buy a dvd player because the psx laser is not designed to play 2+ hrs of video straight. Playing vcds on your psx WILL kill your laser, its just a matter of time. I noticed very bad skipping on games and vcds after only a few weeks of using the adapter. After 4 or 5 months the laser completely died.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

Has anyone tried using the Sony Toolz to convert avi flix to sony .TSR filez and play them on a PS1?

Would these filez be playable as without the vcd--addon?

t.i.a
ZtR

[VCDHookUP]

Thank you. what is the sony toolz? where can i get it? does that format work?

[El_Mero_Zooter]

im trying to find the link again to Sony Tools. ill look on doom9.org, and vcdhelp. It basically was a small app to convert avi (uncompressed audio) to sony playstation tsr files to read on the playstation. I tried burning a small avi, around 100mg, and it converted fine, added a bit more file size but didnt play on da PS1. Maybe i forgot to add some file(z) or a launcher or somepin...

ZtR

[timmy_boi]

Thanx adam i WAS thinking of turning it into a vcd player. but yea you reminded me of that Heat up problem within the PSX machines.

they do though, have these giant fan hook ups for the playstation. its basicly a big blower to keep the lazer cool. I saw it and its wayy too bulky and it requires a seprate plug to run the fan.

[adam]

Well the movie files that the psx uses are .str, not .tsr, and there is a program called avi2str which can do the conversion. I have never heard of Sony Tools, but I assume its just the same thing.

El_Mero_Zooter: yes this is a way to watch movies on the psx without a vcd adapter but its really a pretty terrible method. It greatly lowers quality, requires many many cdrs just for one movie, requires ALOT of hard drive space to do the conversion, makes it unplayable on just about all other hardware/software players, and either requires additional coding or a game enhancer to load the .str file.

timmy_boi: its more than just heat that damages the psx. The laser in the psx is very cheaply made, Sony has even admitted this. Every time you play a game it puts strain on the laser, regardless of how hot it gets, and over an extended period of time the laser becomes weaker and can eventually crap out altogether. Watching vcds on the psx greatly increases the wear on the laser and will kill the laser in a very short period of time. The first psx's released actually played vcds. Sony quickly cut that function out partly because of additonal cost but mainly due to the number of burnt out lasers it was causing.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

kewl, thanx,
guess it looked better on paper.

ztr

[klay51]

vcdhookup- The "vcd player" you use isnt a vcd player. It is an mpeg player for dreamcat. However, there is a vcd player for dreamcast so you can just pop a vcd in without makin a new cd(the quality snt as good tho). If they made hardware for Dreamcast it would be a good vcd player