Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

[James Hong]

isnt VCD another CDFS with MPG1 DAT files ?
Why wouldnt it mount ?

damaged CD ? 

or are we talking about different VCD ?


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adam Fabian
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:58 PM
To: Mark Jayson Alvarez
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why can't I mount a Video CD in FreeBSD??

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:40:09PM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Good day!
>    I'm getting an error whenever I mount a video cd. I can't remember 
> the error right now because I already brought it back to the rental 
> shop (its already overdue). I was also told by my friend that he too 
> can't mount a video cd in his linux box. Do you happen to know why?

A video CD does not have a filesystem, therefore it can't be mounted.
You may be able to play it with the appropriate program, or extract the
video data to files.

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Adam Fabian (afabian at austin.rr.com)
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