Ripping VCDs

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/ripping-vcds.57100/

U need to have vcdimager which comes with 'vcdxrip'

Now 2 steps and thats it :

1> Mount ur VCD some where like this :

# mount /dev/cdrom /home/anant/abc/

2> Now rip ur VCD via this command to ur current folder :

# vcdxrip

We can also do it via 'mplayer/mencoder' but I was unable to figure out the syntax..

Have a look at man pages of mencoder it's shouldn't be too tough after a while. Maybe you can look at the syntax, and write a script if you know scripting. It would make things real easy.

Man pages of mencoder r really big, But I was able to rotate a video by 90 degree going through its manual.. mencoder is a very powerful tool.
I want to learn scripting but not getting appropriate resource.. moreover reading on computer screen is a big pain.. nyways i was following this *tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

//To play vcd track 2
mplayer vcd://2 -alang en
//To play dvd track 1
gmplayer dvd://1 -alang en

//To rip off the vcd tracks
mplayer -dumpstream vcd://2 -alang en -dumpfile 2.avi

As simple! There's more in stickies!

there are gui tools available too.I uses devede,kino etc..besides of the best is a script called any2dvd.it is available for debian,may be ubuntu too.

Thanks mediator