[MPlayer-users] VCD to plain mpeg!

[Nico Sabbi]

Ville Saari wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:34:25PM +0100, Heine Laursen wrote:
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>>Hi. I want to copy/convert a VCD to a mpeg file. But I don't know, if I 
>>just can rename the MPEGAV/AVSEQ01.DAT to a mpeg, or if I should put it 
>>througt mencoder first like:
>>mencoder -of mpeg -ovc copy -oac copy -o some-mpegfile.mpeg 
>>./MPEGAV/AVSEQ01.DAT
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>Both methods should give you a file containing garbage. Use:
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>  mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile some-mpegfile.mpeg vcd://n
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>where n is the number of the track you want to extract. You can't just
>copy the .DAT file from the cd because the video tracks are not readable
>through the file system. A VideoCD is not a CDROM.
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mencoder -of mpeg video.mpg *will not* produce garbage,
mplayer -dumpstream vcd:// -dumpfile x.mpg  *will*

try to run

$ file video.mpg x.mpg

and see what file says