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

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

--- James Hong <freebsd-ml at nightmaestro.com> wrote:

> isnt VCD another CDFS with MPG1 DAT files ?
According to the some people here, VCD isn't really a
file system. I don't know what Windows did to make it
visible in their file Explorer. The actual video file
seems to be located at cdrom:\mpeg\avseq(n).dat

> Why wouldnt it mount ?
I don't know, that's why I'm asking.=)Why?, Have you
tried it already?

> damaged CD ? 
The movie played well in our VCD player.

> 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.
> 
> --
> Adam Fabian (afabian at austin.rr.com)
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