<OT> Video CD

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 06:44:04 +1000
> Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:03 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > No idea Roger, but looking at the site and title I would gues its ready to
> > burn. Just have to suck it and see.
>
> I had hoped that would be the case. So I was going to jump in and use
> cdrdao. That was when it appeared that you cannot just put the mpeg file on
> the disc. I was (I think - not sure at this point) trying to use a utility
> to set up the mpeg file for eventual burinig. The program, vcdimager, died
> as follows:
>
>      $ ./vcdimager -pv pal-vid-vcd.mpg --cue-file=xx.cue --bin-file=xx-bin
>
> --DEBUG: initializing libvcd 0.6.2 [linux-gnu/i686]
>    INFO: scanning mpeg track #0 for scanpoints...
> **ERROR: mpeg scan: pack header code expected, but 0x000001b9 found (buflen= 2324)
>
> Not what I expected. Obviously thre file format is not accepted by this
> utility. It seems the only format options are related to output format.

Ya, VCDs are not a single file, but rather an entire filesystem, with
directories.  So, unless that mpg was some kind of image, it can't be a
VCD.

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