Help with cdvideo

[Raymond Colvin]

Hi
I would be really grateful if anyone could tell me how to play a CDVIDEO
disk on my PC.
I realize it is old format, but i have never been able to see the video on
the disk, the machine plays the audio fine but won't even recognise the
CDVIDEO.
Thank you for any help.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Found this
CD-Video/CDV/CDV5 is a single sided, gold in color, 5" diameter disc containing about
six minutes of video with audio, plus 20 minutes of audio-only, which is usually one
video/audio track and 4 to 5 audio-only tracks. The video is recorded as
uncompressed, analogue data, in the same way as a 12" laserdisc. The video is only
playable on laserdisc players that can handle 5" discs, or the rare CDV players
(Phillips once made some). The audio portion of the CDV is digital, the same as any
audio Compact Disc, and playable on any audio CD player. Most CDVs were produced by
Polygram, all made in the 1980's. They never really caught on as hoped, though were
more popular in Europe than in the US, and even more so in Japan (where I believe
they still are). There is no way to play CDV's on your set top DVD Video player or on
your PC.