VCD to harddrive

[DiscoverPlatinum]

Is there any way to take a file off of a VCD that you've burned and put it back on your hardrive? If so how?

Thanx so much!

[loseyourself]

sorry to sound like an ******* but i have been on the net way tooo long, just look around on this site, i use VCD Gear to rip off the *.dat file out of a VCD to the harddrive...there thats it, it is a very basic program, get the latest version and you will be fine

[aussie8964]

you should be able to go into nero and copy it to your harddrive instead of another cd. Just select your harddrive instead of your burner.

[Cole]

There is an easier way: copy the dat files from the MPEGAV file to your hard drive and rename the file anyname.mpeg extention which will automatically convert it.

To do this however, you have to have your Operating System set so that it shows file extentions.

[sterno]

There is an easier way: copy the dat files from the MPEGAV file to your hard drive and rename the file anyname.mpeg extention which will automatically convert it.

It doesn't "automatically convert" anything, it's just that Windows Media Player and some other programs can play a DAT file just fine. However, doing something like trying to author a new VCD with that renamed file in VCDEasy would fail (it would give you a helpful error message, though).

The only thing the VCD's DAT file has that an ordinary MPEG doesn't are some extra headers and error protection. VCDGear and cdxa2mpeg strip those headers out so that it's an ordinary MPEG-1 file again.