Hi Naren,
Thanks for information about VCD. I thought it is same as Data CD. There is no difference between the two in windows. I can do anything on vcd that can be done with data cd. Where can i get VCDRip. Is it too big file. Here net is not so good, so can't download big files. Regards, Yujin Boby Cherthala, Alappuzha, Kerala [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.w3pages.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Naren Devaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Yujin Boby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [LIH] Cant play DAT file from Disk > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Yujin Boby wrote: > > > > As for copying VCD's on Linux you have to raw read the VCD instead of > > > trying to mount it - you can only mount a 640MB CD unfortunately most > > > VCD's are more than that. I use readvcd and it works great for me - > > > believe there are more such software. > > > > My VCD's are below 640 MB, I can copy the files using windows and play both > > well in Windows Media Player. So how can i copy VCD into my hard disk. > > VCDs use a different sector size (2352 bytes I think) compared to the 2048 > byte sectors on a data CD. So regular file tools cannot handle the odd > sector size. > The first track of a VCD is a iso9660 filesystem describing the VCD. The > actual data is in the second track and is not in the ISO9660 format. So > even though you can mount a VCD and see the files, trying to read the > files will result in errors because of the different sector size. > > I suggest using VCDRip to extract the video information into MPEG files > and then use a MPEG player to play them. > > -Naren > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
