How To Play A VCD In Mac OSX Lion

In Lion, there is no support for playing VCDs out-of-the-box. But, there are applications which you can use to view these like VLC and MPlayer OSX Extended.

VLC is nice, but having stuttering problems when playing VCDs. The other best option is Mplayer OSX Extended.

• Download and install from this website: http://www.mplayerosx.ch/#downloads, from Google Code.
• Also, install the Mplayer Binary Codec Package.
• To run Mplayer, go to Applications->Mplayer OSX Extended.

Mplayer OSX Extended Icon

• Then, File->Add to Playlist and under Devices, choose CD->MPEGAV folder, which has some .DAT files on it. Choose the last file (when its the first VCD).
• Then, Window->Show/Hide Playlist, and click the Play button.
• When it is playing, you may want to put it to fullscreen: Movie->Fullscreen and change Aspect Ratio to Zoom to Fill or Stretch To Fill.

Thats it. Enjoy!

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