I have some old VCDs (video CDs) which I would like to save as MPEG movies on my HDD. I can read the disk images using:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image_file But I have been unable to play the resulting .dat movie files from these images. I suspect part of the problem may be that dd is not reading all the information required from the disk. Apparently VCDs don't use a standard CD filesystem, in order to cram more data onto each disk. In a forum a read that the bin/cue disk image format extracts more data than iso images (i.e. the bin file is larger than the equivalent iso file), and that this is required for getting proper VCD images. Does anyone know how I can extract a bin/cue format image from my VCDs? Cheers, Rob
