Re-encoding or copying a .bin/.cue

[black_adder2]

Hey all,

Please help:

I have a few burned VCDs both in VCD1 and 2 that were originally burned using the .bin/.cue files and using Nero. They work great both as data files in Media Player and on my Apex VCD player.

Now I want to make copies of these for a friend, but I can't figure out how.

Problems:

1) Windows XP straight copy doesn't work because the .dat file is about 800mb (how the hell this magic happens where a 700mb disk holds 800mb in the first place I do not know).

2) In Nero where I go to create a VCD or VCD2 treating the .dat like it were a .mpeg it burns in about 10 seconds and junks the CD. (ie drag and drop then 'Write CD'.

Perhaps there is another way to burn these images other than what I am doing or is it impossible to copy a .bin/.cue burned vcd?

Please share how you re-copy your vcds that are in the directory structure that Nero normally uses (where the key file is the .dat).

Thanks and sorry if I didnt see this answered somewhere else already (yes, I DID look).

[DigiToast]

80Minute/700MB discs can hold 800MB of video or audio. This is possible because when you have a video or audio disc, the latter 100MB on the disc is not used for CRC checking data, but for the actual audio/video data. If you want to use nero to recreate the cds, then go download a utility called vcdgear that will rip the movies off of the cd, convert them out of the dat format and into an mpg (dat files are not the same as mpg!) and then use nero to reauthor the disc.

[black_adder2]

Thank you, I will try vcdgear and let you know.

[black_adder2]

No sir, doesn't work.

I tried using vcdgear to convert mpeg -> mpeg (the file in MPEG2 dir is an mpeg).

It did so with no complaints and the new file was shrunk from 824 on the disc to 717 on my drive.

I then went to Nero and wrote the image as a VCD. It didn't complain. Went to test it on my Apex and nothing...

So I tried reburning as a SVCD - Nero complained that it wasnt Mpeg2. I can see no other way of ripping it using vcdgear, it complains when I try other ways.

Any more ideas?

Thanks!

[SatoriGFX]

Why don't you just use Nero's "CD-Copy" function? That's what it is there for. Why go through the trouble of ripping the video and then trying to recreate a VCD or SVCD when you have one right in front of you and all you need to do is make an exact duplicate of the cd you have?

SatoriGFX.

[black_adder2]

I haven't tried that... trying now. Hopefully it works, it is usually the most obvious answer, isn't it? We shall see...

[black_adder2]

Yes it works well, thanks for the help. Now if only converting .avi to vcd were as easy.