About Philips Cd-i format (VCD) conversion

[R-O-2-N]

Hi
I'm a newbie here. I have this vcd ( the title is INDICENT PROPOSAL;starring Demi Moore ). I bought it about 3-4 years ago ( I forgot the exact year).
The problem is: I've NEVER watching it because I don't have Philips CD-i player. Now I have a PC ( quite good one ); and I'm wonder if anyone can help me to tell me what software should I install to play that vcd. Because when I inpui it to my CDR-W drive ( the brand is A-OPEN 52X), the drive doesn't show any size or any files from it.
I'm sure my drive is OK; so I need some advice to convert that vcd to other playable format (eg. MPG1 or anything else that work ).
Please help me. Thank's

[DJRumpy]

I found this on google:

DigitalVideo discs from Philips manufactured before June, 1994 are not VideoCD
("White Book" standard), but are instead CD-i ("Green Book") format. CD-i
Digital Video discs can be played on Commodore CD32 players with FMV cartridges,
or on IBM/PC compatible computers equipped with Sigma Designs' Reel Magic MPEG
card and a special CD-ROM drive. Contact Sigma Designs to see which drives
work with their board.

It is possible to grab raw tracks from Green Book format discs, using a tool
such as "CDDA" or "CDGRAB", if your CD-ROM drive supports raw 2352 byte sector
reads (only a few high end drives support this feature). You can copy the
whole disc to a hard drive, where some decoder programs can read the raw
sector image & locate the MPEG data for playback.

If you manage to get the files onto your PC, (You might also try WinISO, or ISOBuster), you can then open the file with something like VCDGear to convert it to MPEG.

[VCD GURU]

CD-i = Compact Disc Interactive (if i am not wrong).

The CD-i & VCD disc structure is the same i think so it is strange that you cannot see any files on your pc.

Tried it in a different cd-rom?

Some cd-rom's in portable pc's are not as good as a cd-rom in a standalone 1 (has happend to me).

Try another cd-rom hope this helps.

[R-O-2-N]

Thanks for the respons
I'll try those programs a.s.a.p (ISOBuster seems good in my opinion)
Once again,thanks

[daredevil]

CD-i = Compact Disc Interactive (if i am not wrong).

The CD-i & VCD disc structure is the same i think so it is strange that you cannot see any files on your pc.

Tried it in a different cd-rom?

Some cd-rom's in portable pc's are not as good as a cd-rom in a standalone 1 (has happend to me).

Try another cd-rom hope this helps.

no you can't read cd-i on pc. you have to extact the file with iso buster and rename it as mpg and then you can read it. My standalone player reads it if I burn it in iso format. it is vcd compliant.
but your right the cd-i and vcd have nearly the same logical structure but if I am not wrong the physical structure is different