{"id":135,"date":"2002-12-20T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=135"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"serenity_and_vcds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/20\/serenity_and_vcds\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity and VCDs"},"content":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t forget to tune into the two-hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/firefly\/\">Firefly<\/a> pilot tonight. It&rsquo;s at 8 EST on Fox.\n\n\n\nAfter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/07\/war_stories_and_profont.html\">missing<\/a> the two-weeks-ago episode &ldquo;War Stories,&rdquo; I was able to get a copy on VCD thanks to the kindness of Beth Aweau. Unfortunately, my DVD player is too old\/cheap to play VCDs, and OS X&rsquo;s QuickTime Player can&rsquo;t play them either. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mireth.com\/pub\/mxme.html\">MacVCD X<\/a> can play VCDs on OS X, but I wanted to convert the movie into an MPEG file I could play with QuickTime. To do this, I opened the <tt>.dat<\/tt> file in OS 9&rsquo;s QuickTime Player and saved the movie as a self-contained file. Then I used vcdgear&rsquo;s <tt>-dat2mpg<\/tt> converter. <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/bauer.w\/vcdgearx\/\">VCDGearX<\/a> is an AppleScript Studio interface for vcdgear, but I couldn&rsquo;t get it to work so I ended up using the command-line tool inside VCDGearX&rsquo;s application package.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&rsquo;t forget to tune into the two-hour Firefly pilot tonight. It&rsquo;s at 8 EST on Fox. After missing the two-weeks-ago episode &ldquo;War Stories,&rdquo; I was able to get a copy on VCD thanks to the kindness of Beth Aweau. Unfortunately, my DVD player is too old\/cheap to play VCDs, and OS X&rsquo;s QuickTime Player can&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}