Tidbits from my daily-life

I’ve had a little trouble reading a VCD on my computer tonight.

People using Mac OS X or Win XP might know that the simplest steps if your VCD is not recognised by your VCD playing tools is to simply copy the biggest of the *.DAT files on the VCD to your desktop and rename it to *.mpg to play it.

Well…apparently under ubuntu Fesity, it’s still not the case. But I found a nice way to do it though

1. Install CDFS
   1. get the source files from http://www.elis.ugent.be/~ronsse/cdfs/download/
   2. unzip the archive and open it with a terminal window
      1. ALT+F2
      2. type bash
      3. check the “run in terminal” box
      4. press OK
      5. then type “cd ” and drag-drop the folder where you extracted the file
      6. finally press enter
   3. install the sources
      1. in the same terminal window as above type:
         1. make
         2. sudo make install
         3. sudo insmod cdfs.ko
   4. remount the CD
      1. in the same terminal window (after having inserted the VCD)
         1. sudo umount /dev/scd0
         2. sudo mount -t cdfs /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom
      2. You may now access the CD from /media/cdrom (from nautilus: CTRL+L, then type /media/cdrom)
         You will see that you will have each *.dat file already renamed to a *.mpg file. You can now drag-drop it wherever you want
   5. Don’t forget to unmount the drive before removing it
      1. sudo umount /dev/scd0

Hope it all helps