VCD Player simplifies the process of playing video compact discs on your Mac. With most other players, you only get video in a tiny area of your screen, or in an area surrounded by a huge border of some sort. VCD Player smoothes the video playback process and allows you to watch full-screen movies in the MPEG format, without any headache-inducing distortion to make the movie unwatchable. There are various configurable options that control sound and playback, and just as with a sound-only CD player, you can control which track to start watching.
If you have any questions, comments or bug reports, you can contact me at support@johnnylee.com.
If you like it and use it, please register.
Control keys
Esc / Mouse Click - Stop
Space Bar -- Pause/Continue
Up Arrow -- Previous Track
Down Arrow -- Next Track
Left Arrow -- Fast Rewind
Right Arrow -- Fast Forward
"+" / "=" -- Increase Audio Volume
"-" -- Decrease Audio Volume
"1" - "9" -- Audio Balance ("1" - Left Channel Only, "9" - Right Channel Only, "5" - Stereo)
System Requirements
- Power PC
- QuickTime 2.5 or later
- QuickTime MPEG Extension 1.0 or later
What's new
What's new in 1.4.5?
- VCD Player now can remember where you stopped, after you quit the program, restarted your mac, or even changed to another disc then changed back.
What's new in 1.4.0?
- Audio balance -- you can adjust balance by selecting menu command, or hitting keys '1' to '9' during playback . '1' means Left channel only, '5' means Stereo/Center, '9' means Right channel only.
- Now supports Full Screen, Normal Size, and Double Size playback instead of Full Screen only.
- User can press Esc key to stop playing.
What's new in 1.3.3?
- Fixed a bug that right arrow became 'Next Track' instead of 'Fast Forward'.
What's new in 1.3.2?
- Eliminated possible Type 11 error.
What's new in 1.3.1?
- VCD Player can be launched without DisplayLib.
What's new in 1.3.0?
- Movie Control Window -- you can select which point to start playback.
- The position of Control Strip won't be altered after resized playback.
- VCD Player now change the screen to highest possible no. of colors when 'Resize Screen'.
What's new in 1.2.1?
- Bug fixed : The menu item "Resize Screen" was not functional, now fixed.
What's new in 1.2.0?
- Now you can resume playback from where you last stopped.
- When playback you can switch to previous or next movie by pressing up-arrow or down-arrow respectively. To rewind or fast forward: press left-arrow or right-arrow respectively.
- You can set audio level by selecting Audio Menu item before playback, or pressing keys ('+'/'=' to higher level, '-' to lower level) during playback.
What's new in 1.1.0?
- New option: Resize Screen -- VCD Player switches the screen to smallest resolution (if possible) when playback movie to enhance performance, it switches back to original resolution when stops.
- New options: Repeat One, Repeat All and Shuffle.
- You can pause the movie by press space bar once, then press it again to continue.
- You can now eject Video CD within VCD Player.
Pricing
VCD Player has the following pricing (including unlimited updates).
1 - 19 single user licenses, $10 per user
A Site License costs $200 and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License costs $1000 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
Registration
Paying for VCD Player is fairly simple.
By Telephone
Kagi takes telephone orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The main Kagi phone number is:
+1 (510) 658-5244
By Register program
Open the Register program that accompanies VCD Player. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi handles my payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgment when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgment.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-LJ
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
Unlock VCD Player
VCD Player has a protection scheme and when you pay, Kagi tell you how to indicate to VCD Player that you have paid the registration fee. If you do not have an email address, please enter your complete postal address and please remember, Kagi do not know what country you live in so please enter that into the postal address also.
If you do not have an email address you should consider selecting the Postcard Receipt so that Kagi can inform you of your registration code. Kagi transmits the registration codes via email and paid postcard receipt only.
