How to open a 800MB bin file?

morgoth2400 · 08-10-2005, 10:58 AM

Hello

I've recently downloaded a movie which is dividede by two cds, 800MB each. Both parts are bin files and I'm having a big problem, cause I don`t know hot to open it in linux. I've already read a dozens of posts and I know that I might try to burn a cd with this files, but i do not know any cd burner in linux which supports burning an 800MB files. I would really like to open it anyway.
Please, can anyone help me?
Regards
Marius

macemoneta · 08-10-2005, 11:06 AM

You can simply play the file with mplayer:

mplayer somefile.bin

Or you can burn it to CD with almost any burner. The bin file is an image, so the CD overhead is included. When CDs are marked as 700MB, that's 700MB of data; there's about 130MB of overhead, so the total capacity is about 830MB. Just make sure you burn it as an image. For example:

cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc --speed 8 --eject --datafile siomefile.bin somefile.cue

morgoth2400 · 08-10-2005, 11:17 AM

Thanks a lot, I'm gonna try it right now!!!

geeman2.0 · 08-10-2005, 01:25 PM

Also, could you not mount it as though it were a cd drive?