VCDs in Linux

[Nironkush Rick Das]

Rich,

Here's why you can't cp files from a vcd:

A vcd has 1 ISO-9660 block followed by raw (mpeg)
data. The initial ISO-9660 block makes Linux think
it is just any other ordinary CD and you can
successfully mount it and see its contents. After
all, the meta data is all on the initial block.
But in reality, the entire vcd's format is not of
any file system as such, so you can't do normal copy
operations from there to your hard disk.

The dd command can help you read all the data after
the first iso-9660 block and dump it all as an mpeg
file in your hard disk if you like. See the manual
page for dd for various options to play around with.

Or if you are trying to burn vcd's, try these URL's -
http://www.satlug.org/~bigjnsa/vcd-linux.htm
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps.

Rgds, Rick.

--- Rich Birch <ringo at choicepcs.co.uk> wrote:
> I just put a VCD in my drive and tried copying the
> .dat file to the hard 
> disk but I found every time i tried my computer just
> told me it couldn't 
> read it. Is this a known thing with linux? I thought
> i'd heard of linux 
> users playing vcds, perhaps i'm wrong. The strange
> thing is that i seem 
> to be able to copy every single file to my hard disk
> from the vcd apart 
> from the one that matters!
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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