On Sunday 28 June 2009, Kussh Singh wrote: > > > I tried changing > > > > > > vcd:///dev/sr0 > > > to > > > vcd:///dev/scd0 > > > > /dev/scd0? Is this a typo? It should be /dev/sdb, assuming sda is your > > HDD. > > there are 4 sata slots on the motherboard. File system shows sda1,2,3,4. i > tried using > /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 but they don't work -it was presumed sda1 > represents the hard drive
sda is sata0 1 is the first partition on stat0 2 is the 2nd etc. sdb is sata1 sdc is sata2 sdd is sata3 your cdrom would be on /dev/hda so vlc vcd:///dev/hda should work > > is your vcd media good? > > that i can't say but k3b was able to extract some of the tracks and convert > them into mpeg files. some mpeg files ripped by k3b were of zero size and i > presume those tracks may be unreadable etc (ie the vcd could be bad -hence > the error) -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
