[Wylug-help] V-CD problem

[John Hodrien]

Dave Fisher wrote:

> Either xxine doesn't recognise the file as MPEG-1 (VCD) or you haven't
> installed a codec/decoder plugin to enable xine to decode MPEG-1.
> 
> Have you tried the following?
> 
>   cat avseq*.dat | xine stdin:// 
> 
> Have you tried viewing the VCD with other Linux players, e.g. mplayer,
> vlc (videolan), gstreamer, etc? With and without mounting the VCD?
> 
> Did you (or someone else) create this file with ULEAD/NERO (or similar
> Windows program) by any chance? Neither are particularly VCD standard
> compliant.

I'd personally say ignore that lot.  Where he says it plays fine when copied 
under XP but played under linux, I /think/ that discounts all you've said up to 
this point.

> Have you tried copying the file/s and changing the file extension to mpg/mpeg ?

Where he said:

Then I tried to copy the file, but KDE gave me the following
error

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Cannot read file /mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat

The fact he's getting I/O errors suggests there's something wrong when linux 
mounts the disk.  Normally you'd assume this was a faulty disk, but seeing as it 
works fine in XP, I'm curious.

> Googling for avseq##.dat provides several contradictory accounts.
> 
> Some suggest that avseq##.dat are pointers/shortcuts to the
> actual files rather than the data files themselves. 

I've no idea, but if he's copied the .dat file off in XP and it plays under 
linux, I guess not.  I was under the impression that they're just normal iso9660 
CDs but with a specific directory structure.

jh