Copying VideoCD

HOw can i copy videoCD files say the avseq*.dat from a videoCD... Can anyone help me ... PLzzzzz.

VCD's don't have an ISO9660 filesystem like data CD's, so you can't mount them. You can copy them using a CD burning utility like k3b or cdrdao. If you want to dump the video to your hard drive, install mplayer and type "mencoder vcd://<tracknumber> -ovc copy -oac copy"

thenks for the information... i will chek it out....

I checked it doesnot work in any of the 12 cds i tried can you suggest me some other option....Plzzz...

Have u ever tried vcdimager ?????

www.vcdimager.org/index.phtml

i have not tried it i will download it and check it out whether it serves my purpose...

Any ways thanx for the information....

What do you specifically want to do to the cds? Do you want to copy the movie to your hard drive? Do you want to dump/re-encode the movie? Or do you want to copy the CD?

i want to copy the movies from the cd to the hard disk... can you get information regarding it

I told u install vcdimager, then use vcdxrip

vcdimager takes a movie file on the hard disk and turns it into a bin/cue image for VCD burning. You want to do the opposite. You want to take the file from the VCD and put it on the hard drive (unless I have misunderstood you). Mencoder is probably the best tool for doing this. Get mplayer/mencoder and the win32 codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu and install them. If you have trouble installing them, do a search of Linuxquestions.org. There are lots of threads about installing mplayer. You can test your configuration by inserting the VCD into your cdrom drive and typing "mplayer vcd://1". If it doesn't play the video properly, then something is wrong and you need to fix it before proceeding further.

You will probably be better off re-encoding the video than just dumping it; you will get a much smaller file size. Try "mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=120:vcodec=mpeg4 vcd://1". Leave all the other options as default for now - you can experiment later if you want.

If you just want to copy the video file without reencoding it, use "mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy vcd://1". The output file will be called test.avi.

If neither command works, I probably made a mistake in my instructions. Post the error that mencoder gives you on this thread.

spuzzzzzzz, there is a program called "vcdxrip" included in the vcdimager package which is exclusively used to RIP video tracks off a videocd.

ah, sorry. I thought you meant the vcdimager program. But I would still recommend re-encoding the movie with mencoder. The mpeg1 codec used for VCDs is obsolete and you can save lots of space by making it mpeg4.

the mencoder doesnot work ... properly while reading from the vcd's cann u suggest one example with the avseq01.dat... plzzzz... spuzzzzzz over to you

What makes it not work? Do you get any error messages? If mencoder has problems with a VCD, you could dump it with vcdxrip, as suggested by vinay and re-encode it afterwards.

Afaik, the avseq01.dat file doesn't really exist on a VCD. VCD's don't have filesystems on them, so there are no files. Windows pretends that there are files on a VCD in order that VCD's behave like normal CD's but what you see in Windows Explorer doesn't really exist.