ripping video from Philips CD-I discs?

[geek rock]

I've got a CD-I disc that's only compatible with Philips CD-I players, that's full of video clips. I tried putting it in my DVD player (which plays VCD and SVCD) and it couldn't read it. I just put it in my CD-Rom drive, and when I open the CD-Rom, it says that the disc is empty.

Is there any software I can download to rip this video footage from the disc, and let me convert it to MPG?

-Mark

[TurboGen]

Take a look at:

http://www.icdia.org

They have software for your PC that enables you to read the CDi disks on your PC and extract the MPEG's etc.

[geek rock]

thanks a lot!

any ideas which program I'd need?

[TurboGen]

Try the CD-i Filesystem Driver 2.0 (Beta) for Windows 95/98/Me

I dunno if it works with XP. You'll be able to treat your CDi disks like regular VCD's with this software (assuming your CDROM / DVD drive is CDi file system compatible which most are)

Alternatively ISO buster will achieve the same function, but in a less straight forward manner.

Have a look at the PC/Windows download section and the CDi disk tools section for me details.

Good luck

[geek rock]

i got it working with ISOBuster. just opened the CD up in that program, extracted the rtf files to my computer, and I'm now converting them to VCD standard MPG's. thanks

-Mark