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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 22:10:04 -0500
From: Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
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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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