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

Adam Fabian afabian at austin.rr.com
Wed Nov 24 19:00:02 PST 2004


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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