Re: vcd, .dat files and isofs problem

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:32:30 +0100 (BST)


> I have problems reading the .dat files from VCD, here is the kernel
> logs. I think it is an fs issue, since I am not the only one having the
> same problem. In user space, read returns I/O error but I think it is an
> fs issue or a cd-rom

VCD .dat files are not normal "files". They are encoded in a different mode
to get more bytes/sector at the cost of lower error resistance (mpeg is
error resistant in itself...)

Alan
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