Hi,
I am facing one strange problem in my Linux machine. Every thing was ok before. But last few days, it started giving me "I/O Error" while coping any data from CD to any normal hard disk folder. This Error does not comes always. Every thing seems to be fine, as i am able to copy using same machine's windows operating system. Using X-windows or using Cp command, i get same result "I/O Error". If CD is of any movie CD, I am not able to copy but using Xine i can see movie.

do any one of u also face same problem? Do i need to compile my kernel? I am using Linux last 4 months. It was ok till last few days.


I have,

Red Hat 9.0
Intel P IV
Samsung Combo Drive
SeaGate hard disk.

Do u have any idea?

regards,
Shahnaz.

I had the same problem with movie cds. But I can copy ordinary data cd's normally. Whenever I try to copy mvie cd's, I/O errors pop up. You can try to dd the entire cd, so that you can save it.

yeah, i think i'm having the same problems when i'm copying movies over my network that are about CD size in .avi format. what exactly does dd do and how do i use it?

hi there
you have NO problem with your linux.
you CANNOT copy a movie file from a movie cd, the folders you see inside a movie cd are "virtual" folders. and when you copy a movie file in windows it actually "rips" it off the cd. in linux you cannot rip directly. instead you have to use a ripper thing. try to find an appropriate ripper for your distro.

Hi all,
Thanks for participating here. It looks, i am not alone in boat.

But Mr krussell, what about DVD movies ? do we need ripper for DVD also? I remember i was able to copy my last DVD movie. although it was giving me same Error message, but i was keep clicking on skip option. In end, i had all the files with same size as on DVD. I think, that was the only DVD i tried to copy.

Do u know any best ripper for Red hat?

and TOP of that, i dont remember exactly, if i am able to copy Data files or not. Or this problem is only with VCD's I need a break, Now i am in office. and every where here in office Mr Gates are smiling. I have to go home to check this again.



regards,
Shahnaz.

"and every where here in office Mr Gates are smiling"...same here for me too. but so far as i remember, there are rippers for dvd.

i personally tried many rippers, but failed. cannot recommend you anything there, sorry

Hi guys,
I got it finally. and i learnt a lot also from this small discussion. Not just how to dump VCD to hard disk.

I was not knowing its only VCD which was creating this problem. I was thinking, its in my some data CD's as well. Any way Mr Krussell says right, we need a ripper to dump VCD and i found 2 rippers. One is our own "mplayer" and another is "VCDImager".

I am using mplayer for watcing movies since a long time. Its very fine. I always used to watch movies from hard disk (as i was not able to play directly from CD ). But i never knew i just have to pass "-vcd 1" to watch movie directly from CD. I used to give directly path of CD, which used to get fail in end. So i had to copy to hard disk from VCD first, and that is the point where this thread started. I never could copy in hard disk in Linux. So i had to switch to Windows. Copy in hard disk. and then watch in linux using mplayer. (Long way just to watch in Linux. But i love watching in linux. Its gives more faster controls then Windows media player.)

I got to know now, just giving "-vcd 1" can play directly from CD.

Any way according to doc of mplayer, if u install mplayer, u will get "mencoder" (which i dont get, i dont know reason) which can be used to dump .dat file to hard Disk. here is how,
"mencoder -vcd 1 -ovc copy -oac copy -of mpeg -o output.mpg"

As i dont have mencoder installed in my system, i could not test it. I found options in mplayer too to dump. If u need just audio or just video or both. u have freedom to do so. here is how.

"mplayer -vcd 1 -dumpstream -dumpfile output.mpg"
it will dump both audio as well video.

for only audio i guess,
"mplayer -vcd 1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile output.mpg"
and for only video its,
"mplayer -vcd 1 -dumpvideo -dumpfile output.mpg"


I didnt get time to check VCDImager. I had to sleep.

Just give it try.......

thanks.

regards,
Shaan.

hello ShaanAli
for ripping you can try http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/inst...pp#source_tgz, this application needs "transcode" that you can download from http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goetti...ich/transcode/

Hi krussell,
Thanks for ur reply. I got already mplayer working for me. I checked only VCD, not DVD. I will try ur link as well, if i face any problem in my mplayer. Or may be others can try out if they dont have mplayer.

thanks again man.

regards,
Shaan

hi there

try out this link to get VCDS copied to ur harddisk
downlaod the CDFS module from the list according to ur kernel

regards

gaurav