VCDs in Linux

[Marco Alanen]

On Wed, 08 May 2002 01:38:34 +0100
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!

I experienced the same thing. I could play the disc, but not copy it.
Try vlc with the parameter "-vcd *", where * is a track. Like -vcd 1.

 /Marco

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