Abstract: Disclosed is a method for playing an audio packet separately in a video CD and apparatus thereof enabling to play the audio packet stored in the video CD selectively as well an MPEG2-formated audio file. In a video CD storing video and audio packets simultaneously, the present invention includes the steps of reading a sector of the video CD, finding packet identification informations from the sector, judging whether the sector includes the audio packet or not using the packet identification informations, decoding the audio packet according to an encoding format if the sector includes the audio packet, and converting the decoded audio packet to an analog signal to output.