Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Apr 2002 22:10:04 -0500 | From | Will Dyson <> | Subject | Re: vcd, .dat files and isofs problem |
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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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