Re: vcd, .dat files and isofs problem

Will Dyson (will_dyson@pobox.com)
Thu, 04 Apr 2002 22:10:04 -0500

Alan Cox wrote:
>>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

Have a look at cdfs: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/

It will allow you to read those files. Of course, there are also userland
utilities for that. Just search freshmeat for vcd.

> 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...)

I knew they were different, but not why. Learn something new every day.

-- 
Will Dyson


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