VCD not playing!!!

s26c.sayan · 2007-04-29 15:10:54

Hi!
Just as the title of my post says, I CANNOT PLAY VCD-s!!

The VCD mounts ok, and I can browse its contents in my file manager, but can't play it. First , I thought it was some thing to do with the *.dat format in the VCD which linux cannot read. But both Mplayer and VLC seems to fail, and so this is not the problem it seems!

This is the error I get when I start VLC from CLI to play the *.dat file:

VLC media player 0.8.6b Janus
[00000291] access_file access error: read failed (Input/output error)

...and this line keeps coming until I close VLC.

The relevant portion of my /etc/fstab is :

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Any ideas??

skottish · 2007-04-29 15:40:57

What happens when you try 'mplayer vcd://1' from the command line?

qlus · 2007-04-29 15:57:10

You don't need to mount VCD.
VLC=>File=>Open Disc...=>VCD Device name /dev/cdrom1 (or whatever you have) and press ok.
Does you user belong to optical group?

s26c.sayan · 2007-04-29 16:42:51

qlus wrote:

You don't need to mount VCD.
VLC=>File=>Open Disc...=>VCD Device name /dev/cdrom1 (or whatever you have) and press ok.

Ok...this way I can now play the VCD !! What an idiot I am not to think of this before!!
Thanks!!

But now I'd like to copy the contents of the VCD to my hard disc. So, I have to mount it, open it in my file manager,
and try to copy the contents to another location. But now I am having permissions problems (the folders show a 'lock' icon in Thunar). I don't know much about permission stuff, I tried to edit the /etc/fstab to 'rw' , but even that doesn't seem to work. Any further ideas???

P.S. : I think I can use VLC's 'wizard' interface and the transcode/save to file option to convert the VCD file to something else and save to hard disc, but still I would like to know how to manually copy the contents of the VCD.

qlus · 2007-04-29 17:33:57

Do you have write permission to /mnt/cdrom directory?

waltm · 2007-04-29 17:34:50

try vcdxrip, part of the vcdimager package.

using a file manger to copy the files is possible just click and drag what you want to where you want but messy. Once the files are in your home directory open console and do chmod u+rw *.DAT to make the files deletable or use the file managers tools to do it. You can't set the permissons directly on the CD since the chmod command can't write to the CD file system.

This link www.freeos.com/articles/4440/ much better than I can.

s26c.sayan · 2007-04-29 17:36:28

qlus wrote:

Do you have write permission to /mnt/cdrom directory?

I don't know!!!

How do I know if i do or don't???

s26c.sayan · 2007-04-29 17:44:16

using a file manger to copy the files is possible just click and drag what you want to where you want

That's what I am trying to do!!! But Can't!!
This is what it keeps saying :

Failed to read data from "/mnt/cdrom/MPEGAV/AVSEQ01.DAT" (Input/output error)

waltm · 2007-04-29 22:05:14

Try vcdxrip next. A gui (pointy clickety thing) can be had with vcdxrip -gui or
mplayer vcd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile filename.mpg

There is the possibility that the CD is damaged or mangled.

With that I am fresh out of ideas.

Arch Linux

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VCD not playing!!!

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