[Appleman]

I have 20 CD's which contain a television serie, in MPEG format.

I wanted to burn these CD's on DVD, but the finder doesn't let me copy the file, giving me the following error:
" The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "AVSEQ01.MPG" could not be read or written. (Error code -36). "

When trying to open the file with QuickTime (I do have the MPEG-2 bought and installed as well), QuickTime comes with the following message"
" Couldn't open the file "AVSEQ01.MPG" becasue there was an input/output error"

Same goes for iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere: cannot open it.

VLC can open the file, well actually more precisely VLC can open the disc, but VLC can not export files.

Now this television series is put on CD's with a peecee. I have the idea that the serie is one huge file on the pc and chopped into CD-format-size, maybe that's why the names of these files have SEQ, from "sequence"?

So, although I can view the series on CD, I cannot copy the files (hardcopy of CD to CD can).

Can someone please enlighten me where the problem lies, and if the problem can be dealt with?

Thank you!

[Jacke]

It could be that the Finder have problems if the CDs were overburned. I haven't tried any overburned CDs so I can't say, but how big are the files?

Originally posted by Appleman:
VLC can open the file, well actually more precisely VLC can open the disc, but VLC can not export files.

It's not well-known, but VLC has sort of an export option. Use 'Open file' from the File menu instead of 'Quick open' and there should be a checkbox named 'Advanced output', and then you set the output to MPEG, and it should stream the MPEG file to a new file.

[Appleman]

Doesn't work. And no, the CD's are not overburned, as some hold only something like 200 MB. Thanks though.

[mitchell_pgh]

Are you able to get the mpeg files on to your HD?

Are you burning from your CD drive to your DVD burner?

Also, spell out the full process in painful detail... (what system you are running it on, hardware, etc. etc.)

[Millennium]

It looks like your CDs are actually in VCD format; that would explain the filenames. OSX has some strange issues with VCDs. VLC works around these issues enough to play the files, but copying the files out is much more difficult.

You might want to try VCDGear. I think it's supposed to be able to do what you want. I've never used it myself, though, so I can't be completely sure.

[Appleman]

Originally posted by Millennium:
It looks like your CDs are actually in VCD format; that would explain the filenames. OSX has some strange issues with VCDs. VLC works around these issues enough to play the files, but copying the files out is much more difficult.

You might want to try VCDGear. I think it's supposed to be able to do what you want. I've never used it myself, though, so I can't be completely sure.

VCDgear maybe is the solution, but what ever i tried, I simply do not want this command ****. That's why I didn't like MS-DOS, nor Linux, nor Unix.

I simply don't get it that OS X cannot get VCD-files, The most modern OS in the world, yeah right. It simply sucks big time. It's a kind of MPEG-file, and we cannot get it with QuickTime Pro, Mac OS X, etc?

It took me the whole day to find an answer, and no, it didn't work, and now I am pretty sick of it.

Thanks anyway for your help Milennium!

[Appleman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Are you able to get the mpeg files on to your HD?

Are you burning from your CD drive to your DVD burner?

Also, spell out th e full process in painful detail... (what system you are running it on, hardware, etc. etc.)

Guess you do NOT read good: NO, the Finder cannot copy it, since it is on 20 CD's, and just read the posting and the error statement.

How can I burn it from CD to DVD if I cannot copy the files first to my harddrive????

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr: I sometimes hate Apple...

[tooki]

Here's the deal: VCDs are not CD-ROMs!

The Finder displays them as such for convenience, but they aren't CD-ROMs, and can't be treated as such.

Use VCDgear and stop being whiny -- if you want Apple to support VCD, submit feedback asking for it.

tooki

[wingchuner]

Use VCDCopyX to copy them into mpg format on your harddrive...then you can convert them to what you like.

[Appleman]

Originally posted by tooki:
The Finder displays them as such for convenience, but they aren't CD-ROMs, and can't be treated as such.

Use VCDgear

Ok , it's not that I want to be winy, but it drove me a bit mad yesterday.
From the Readme file of VCDgear:

"Ok - but to make things easy, copy the stuff to your home directory and try something like for example:
./VCDGear1_76 -dat2mpg mydatfile.dat newmpgfile.mpg
If you had copied a VCD file to your homedirectory and renamed it to mydatfile.dat, this would work."
---> that doesn't work since I cannot copy it to my harddrive...

"If you're having trouble copying a mpeg track to your harddrive from a vcd/svcd-cd, use Toast 5, save Disc-image and then rename the image to .bin instead of .toast. Then run VCDGear with the -bin2mpg switch.
If you have Toast 6, just select Get Track Info and select the mpeg-track and save."
----> well, I might be to stupid, but I simply do not unerstand what thry mean: whatever I tried with Toast 6, I cannot get this Get Track Info not greyed out.

If someone might be more intelligent or handy and could enlighten me on this, or just give a small hint in how to get this done, that would be very appreciated.

I'll email the guy from VCDgear as well, and if I get to know more, I'm surely will come back with results.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Appleman:
Guess you do NOT read good: NO, the Finder cannot copy it, since it is on 20 CD's, and just read the posting and the error statement.

How can I burn it from CD to DVD if I cannot copy the files first to my harddrive????

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr: I sometimes hate Apple...

I read just fine. I think you don't know how to post "good".

1) You never indicated your setup in your post (or any other vital information like OS, etc. etc.), so I have no clue as to how you plan to burn the VCDs.

2) You could have been trying a CD --> DVD burn directly (which may have accounted for the error) if you had two drives.

3) The error could be an indication of a buss error.

good luck

[Appleman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I read just fine. I think you don't know how to post "good".

1) You never indicated your setup in your post (or any other vital information like OS, etc. etc.), so I have no clue as to how you plan to burn the VCDs.

2) You could have been trying a CD --> DVD burn directly (which may have accounted for the error) if you had two drives.

3) The error could be an indication of a buss error.

good luck

I have 20 CD's which actually are VCD's. On it is an old television serie. Instead of having to bring these 20 CD's with me, or to store them, I planned to put them together on just a couple of DVD's.
So in order to burn them on DVD I thought about first copy them to my hardrive, and then later make a DVD of them.

I'm currently using an iMac DV Special 400 MHz, 1 GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.3.3 and I'm having an external La Cie DVD burner with Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105 inside.

If I put the CD (or VCD if you want to call it so) in the internal DVD-CD slotloading drive, it can be viewed with VLC. However, I can not copy the contents of the disc to my harddisk.

If I put the CD (or VCD if you want to call it so) in the external DVD-burner, it can be viewed with VLC. However, I can not copy the contents of the disc to my harddisk.
(same story).

As Milennium already stated, OS X shows the file for convenience but nothing more.

The tricks they mention in the Readme-file of VCDgear have been tried out by me, but as stated, I do not understand them or it is not written down logical.

I hope it's clear now.

[Appleman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I read just fine. I think you don't know how to post "good".

2) You could have been trying a CD --> DVD burn directly (which may have accounted for the error) if you had two drives.

As stated: the VCD's can be copied one-on-one perfectly. So that's not the problem. What I want is room to spare.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Appleman:
I have 20 CD's which actually are VCD's. On it is an old television serie. Instead of having to bring these 20 CD's with me, or to store them, I planned to put them together on just a couple of DVD's.
So in order to burn them on DVD I thought about first copy them to my hardrive, and then later make a DVD of them.

I'm currently using an iMac DV Special 400 MHz, 1 GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.3.3 and I'm having an external La Cie DVD burner with Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105 inside.

If I put the CD (or VCD if you want to call it so) in the internal DVD-CD slotloading drive, it can be viewed with VLC. However, I can not copy the contents of the disc to my harddisk.

If I put the CD (or VCD if you want to call it so) in the external DVD-burner, it can be viewed with VLC. However, I can not copy the contents of the disc to my harddisk.
(same story).

As Milennium already stated, OS X shows the file for convenience but nothing more.

The tricks they mention in the Readme-file of VCDgear have been tried out by me, but as stated, I do not understand them or it is not written down logical.

I hope it's clear now.

Perfect... thank you

[Appleman]

As promised, I would come back when and if I found a solution.
This was given to me by the man who helped porting the VCDgear to OS X,
Mattias Carlsson.

His email, which made it successful:

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Hi there Joris!

Ok, since you seem to have Toast 6, and that's
easiest, we'll do it step by step.

1. Start Toast 6.
2. Insert Disc.
3. Go to Menu "Record" and select "Disc info".
4. Select the big track (number 2 most likely).
- A button labeled "Save as..." will light to your
bottom right.
5. Picka name for the file, then location and click
"Save".

If this doesn't work, there's probably something
shifty with 10.3.

And no, they're not named AVSEQ because it was made on
a pc. It's the standard name. On VCD's (mpeg1),
they're usually called AVSEQ01.DAT, and on SVCD's
they're usually called AVSEQ01.MPG or MPEGAV01.MPG...

Let me know if you run into more problems. I know
pretty much about tools for
joining/splitting/muxing/demuxing mpegfiles etc...

Cheers,
Mattias

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Hope it will help others with similar problems!