If you have problems with your CD ROM drive consider the following general notes:
There are three types of CD-ROM available, that confirm to different standards, and are not therefore compatible with each other. They are as follows:
Yellowbook: Conventional CD-ROM
Greenbook: Used for linear video, typically used in Philips CD-I players (384 lines)
Whitebook: Used for digiral video VideoCD (352 lines).
Warning!
To play VideoCDs with the V7-VEGA VIDEO you must have a Whitebook type CD-ROM drive. As the VideoCD format of data is very new, older type CD-ROM drives may not be able to read the data. If you do have problems reading data from a VideoCD, you may find that a software update for your CD-ROM drive will help.
Only use CDs explicitly labelled 'VideoCD'.
- Check that SMARTDRV.EXE is being loaded before MSCDEX.EXE (CONFIG.SYS)
- Use the latest driver version for your CD ROM drive; it is possible that older driver versions are not able to read the VideoCD format.
- To read CDs you need about 500 KB conventional memory. You may see an error message that the CD cannot be read or messages that the SPEA MCI driver does not work correct. In this case, delete or REM out all drivers you don't need urgently from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file and restart your system.
- Only use CD ROM drives that support the default reading access and fulfill the ISO 9000 rules. A list of CD ROM drives tested by SPEA can be found in the README file in the SPEA directory.
