After a bit of googling I found this http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/40124-how-copy-files-vcd.html#post258201
On 11/3/07, robert vickerstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
