Re: [transcode-users] is transcode unable to import VCD Mpeg

[Daeron <daeron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:08, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:56 +1000, Daeron wrote:
> > I can dump a VCD to disk as its native:
> > MPEG-PS file format with a MPEG1  352x288
> >  But every attempt to transcode it fails, if I specify Mpeg in any form
> > it automatically attempts to read it as a 720x576 video ! which of course
> > fails.
>
> How you do dump the contents of the VCD? Instead of what seems to be
> possible, it is actually not possible to simply read the the .dat file
> using e.g. cat or cp. You need a special tool to do that.
 Mplayer is the most simple, as you can view the contents and then dump them 
to disk;
 -dumpstream is the required swith documented in the man page
 -cdrom-device can be used if you do not use your default CD device
 there is also -dumpvideo and -dumpaudio if wanted.