From b11ab7c61af696b122b74daffbec414332c37906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: arpi -csslib /path/to/libcss.so
option). To use it,
you need to be root, use a suid root MPlayer binary or let MPlayer call the
- suid root fibmap_mplayer wrapper program.
mplayer -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
About .DAT files:
The ~600 MB file visible on the first track of the mounted vcd isn't a real
-track! It's a so called iso gateway, created to allow Windows to handle such
+file! It's a so called iso gateway, created to allow Windows to handle such
tracks (Windows doesn't allow raw device access to applications at all).
Under linux, you cannot copy or play such files (they contain garbage).
Under Windows it is possible as its iso9660 driver emulates the raw reading of
-tracks in this file.
-To play a .DAT file you need a kernel driver which can be found on a powerdvd
-Linux version. It is a modified iso9660 fs driver, which is able to emulate the
+tracks in this file. To play a .DAT file you need a kernel driver which can be
+found in the Linux version of PowerDVD. It has a modified iso9660 filesystem
+(vcdfs/isofs-2.4.X.o) driver, which is able to emulate the
raw tracks through this shadow .DAT file. If you mount the disc using their
driver, you can copy and even play .DAT files with mplayer. But it won't
work with the standard iso9660 driver of the kernel! It is recommended to
-use the -vcd
option instead.
-vcd
option instead. Alternate options for VCD copy are
+the new cdfs kernel driver (shows CD sessions as image files) and
+cdrdao (a bit-to-bit cd grabber/copier application).
The default VCD device is /dev/cdrom
. If your setup differs,
make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the