----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Zuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 8, 2004 3:51 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] SVCD recording
> On March 8, 2004 2:26 pm, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > > On Monday 08 March 2004 13:52, GRAHAM MONK wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > I have a SVCD disc which I would like to copy to my hard > drive, I don't > > > need to compress it, I understand it is MPEG based format. > > > > > > I am trying to use dd but I'm not getting very far. > > > Can I do this and what commands would I use? > > > > I am sure you could do this with mplayer. Well actually > mencoder (which is > > part of mplayer). > > > > >From the man page it does not specifically state svcd ... but I > know it > > > > handles it. > > > > > > something like: > > > > > > mencoder vcd://1 -o file.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 > > > > > > I'm not exactly sure ... never done that before. > > Don't do that unless you want to re-encode the video, which can > take a while. > To get the mpeg with mencoder try this: > > mencoder vcd://1 -o file.mpg -cdrom-device /dev/cdrw_ide \ > -of mpeg -oac copy -ovc copy > > Or even better from the vcdimager tools: > vcdxrip --track 1 -C /dev/cdrw_ide > > ~Scott > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Thanks for the replies Guys, If I am interpreting the commands correctly I think you misunderstood me, I want to dump the file to the hard drive, not burn a copy. Thanks Graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
