[ubuntu-in] trying to rip vcd without success

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Have you tried a> checking whether the file (AVSEQ01 or whatever it is
> called on your vcd ..) plays okay on vlc or any other media player? if
> it does,
>

Yes it does.

>
> > Also are there anyother VCDripping tools, arson also does not seem too
> work
> b> have you just tried using ffmpeg to convert the file? What are you
> trying to rip it "to"?


Just to a file that i can edit and keep on my hd mean while

also am trying to make a copy - cd to cd and this is an absolute pain

If you just want to copy to your hard drive,
> you should just be able to go to the directory on the CD and copy the
> file (some newer DVDs you need to be root to read the file, but should
> work fine with a VCD, imo...)


Maybe with newer DVD's etc but not with VCD's - this has been an age old
problem - with me and , usually i have just found a windows machine and
copied the xyz.dat file and renamed it xyz.mpeg or something and this works,

You could potentially also use VLC's
> "Transcode/Save to File" option, that's worked for me in the past.
>

will try VLC

thanks
ram
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