CDi movies with language selection

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thomas
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CDi movies with language selection

Post by thomas » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:48 pm

is there such an option with CDi movies?

I noticed that sometimes Asian VCD movies give you a (left side speaker) mandarin option and (right side speaker) cantonese option.

I was just wondering if that was done with CDi movies perhaps? (for European countries).

Anyone know?
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Post by Bas » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:51 am

XCLTempest once posted his experiences with subtitles on VCD's. I don't think there was an option for more than one subtitle, but I found it very interesting to see that it is possible to switch on and off subtitles on CD-i movies. OK, most CD-i movies (based on older VCD engines) had their subtitles burnt on the same video layer as the video itself, but apparently in later versions it was possible to make a switch.

I've never seen them using the option to use mono speakers so they could put two audio streams through both speakers, but I found that very annoying with chinese VCD's as it makes the sound terrible!
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