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  1. Has anyone sucessfully copied a VCD via command line?

    I tried cdrecord -v dev=1,3,0 speed=16 -isosize /dev/scd0

    It seemed to work. Here is the output:

    Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
    TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
    scsidev: '1,3,0'
    scsibus: 1 target: 3 lun: 0
    Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
    Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
    atapi: 0
    Device type : Removable CD-ROM
    Version : 2
    Response Format: 2
    Capabilities : SYNC
    Vendor_info : 'YAMAHA '
    Identifikation : 'CRW2100S '
    Revision : '1.0H'
    Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
    Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
    Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
    Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
    Drive buf size : 7582848 = 7405 KB
    FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
    Track 01: data 570 MB padsize: 30 KB
    Total size: 654 MB (64:53.32) = 291999 sectors
    Lout start: 655 MB (64:55/24) = 291999 sectors
    Current Secsize: 2048
    ATIP info from disk:
    Indicated writing power: 4
    Is not unrestricted
    Is not erasable
    Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
    ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17)
    ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73)
    Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
    Manuf. index: 22
    Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
    Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 67849
    Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real TAO mode for single session.
    Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
    Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
    Performing OPC...
    Starting new track at sector: 0
    Track 01: 570 of 570 MB written (fifo 100%) 16.1x.
    Track 01: writing 30 KB of pad data.
    Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 597979136/598009856 (291997 sectors).
    Writing time: 277.199s
    Fixating...
    Fixating time: 23.287s
    cdrecord: fifo had 9419 puts and 9419 gets.
    cdrecord: fifo was 12 times empty and 8012 times full, min fill was 0%.

    and if i diff the two VCD's I get:

    diff /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/cdda and /mnt/cdrom2/cdda
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/cdi and /mnt/cdrom2/cdi
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/ext and /mnt/cdrom2/ext
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/karaoke and /mnt/cdrom2/karaoke
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/mpegav and /mnt/cdrom2/mpegav
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/segment and /mnt/cdrom2/segment
    Common subdirectories: /mnt/cdrom/vcd and /mnt/cdrom2/vcd

    Everything seems copisetic, however the created VCD cannot be played in mplayer, ati vcd player, or my set top box DVD player. The original VCD will play in all of them though.

    Can anyone tell me where I went wrong?
    Can anyone give me an alternitive that works via the command line?
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  2. I don't use Linux much at all, but it seems to me that you basically copied the "VCD" as if it were a CD-ROM. That is, simply copied the "filesystem" to a new disc.

    This is not a VCD and it won't work...

    Regards.
    Michael Tam
    w: Morsels of Evidence
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  3. OK, now I know where I went wrong.

    Can anyone give me an alternitive command structure to make this come out right? Suggestion on alternitive apps to make a proper VCD via commandline?
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    Off the top of my head I don't remember the arguments, but you need to use cdrdao to copy. cdrecord doesn't do DAO burning.
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    I "think", that you could probably get away with that old classic, dd, to make an image of the vcd, then just use cdrecord to burn it.

    Something like:
    dd if=/dev/[whatever] of=vcd.img

    where /dev/[whatever] is your CDROM device.

    This will hopefully create an image of the vcd called vcd.img, in the current working directory.
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