Should've said i had used k3b to try this but failed (that that used vcimager).
think the process i used originally was devede to convert file to videoCD resulting mpeg file burnt to cd-r result was a good clean burn. have tried this again to no luck. Will go to the link when i get home (at work at moment - shhh). thanks for the pointer nick. dave. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:32 AM, dave lilley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > bit different but same issue (AVI to video CD) > > I converted the file from AVI to a Video CD and got it > > on the CD size was 813Megs now i want to copy it but > > haven't suceeded yet (tried disk copy, burning the > > original think i have to shrink it first this is a > > project i *must* do for wife). > > > > hth > > IIRC video-cd does not have a regular file system on it, > so disk copy may not work. The reason you can get 813MB on > a video cd is because you aren't clogging up a great chunk > of the CD with an ISO filesystem's redundancies (which are > important for data integrity on regular files, but not > used on videoCD) > > However google does assist with this page: > > http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Copy_Video.html > > To copy a Video CD (these use audio CD disks--the common > CD-R) the following should do the trick: > > $ cdrdao read-cd --paranoia-mode 2 --read-raw data.toc > > > To then write it to another CD-R: > > $ cdrdao write data.toc > > > There are other tools including readvcd, vcdimager, and > vcdgear.
