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From: Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vcd, .dat files and isofs problem
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 22:10:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CAD158C.3040301@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16tDuI-0006jc-00@the-village.bc.nu>

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


      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-05  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-04 20:04 vcd, .dat files and isofs problem David Chow
2002-04-04 20:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05  3:10   ` Will Dyson [this message]

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