Invisible and invalid VCD files...

[Eggsister]

Hi there, i'm new to the forum, and i need your help please!

I have a VCD which I would like to view and also edit the video files. However, the disc won't play by any media player (including WMP11) except for VLC Player. When i checked the media info the codec information is like this:

Stream 0
Codec: mpgv
Type: video
Stream 1
Codec: mpga
Type: audio

Also when i opened the vcd disk directory, there's nothing and it seems like all files are invisible. I assume that the vcd has been locked?

Does anyone know how, in anyway, that i can retrieve the files in the VCD and also what other codec i would need in order to play this vcd in common media players?

this is really important for me please please please help me!
million thanks!

[Soopafresh]

The file will have a .DAT extension on the CD

[Eggsister]

hi,

there is no file visible when the disk is open, it's empty, i can't see anything, not even hidden file or anything!

(yah i know there should be .DAT files i used to be able to do it with all other VCDs but not this group of VCDs now)...

[AlanHK]

If VLC can play it, it must have the standard VCD video files on it.

Try VCDGear to extract and convert VCD dat files to normal MPEG1.

Or ISObuster, (see https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=141726)

[Eggsister]

Hi there,

thanks for your information. I just downloaded VCDGear to try.

But still, none of the programs can find any files in the VCD, media players, converters, all can't find can't see any files when i tried to open the VCD, it's just all empty and nothing there, i really don't know why it's like this?

[mgh]

isobuster will show everything that is there on the cd and so will ultraiso. cd protections work by fooling windows, they can't fool above two

[Eggsister]

mgh, thanks so much for your info. i did get to see the invisible .DAT files through isobuster! that's a great start... now my next problem is, that all the AVSEQ.DAT files appears to be 0KB in size... so when i extract them they're 0KB as well... is there any steps that i was missing still?

sorry for all the questions and thanks for being patient with a newbie!

[Soopafresh]

0 bytes ? = No good.

What's with the CD - is it scratched or copy protected ?

[Eggsister]

oh actually i think i had just figured them out! all the real video files are located in a seperate folders and i just found it! that was so weird i wonder why they would do that...

(and Soopafresh i think the CD is indeed copy protected...)

but yah now it's all working, all you guys Soopafresh/AlanHK/mgh THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH you've saved my life!