I've spent much of today racking my brain trying to figure out how to copy a VCD. It seems that nice user-friendly k3b can't do it, and ditto for xcdroast. After much googling and experimentation, I hit upon the correct command-line syntax for using cdrdao. It's actually very simple, but took a long time to figure out, so I decided to post my short little script to save others the trauma of trying to figure it out. The following assumes that you have two CD drives. You need to make sure that you have two symbolic links, /dev/cdrom for the CD reader and /dev/cdrom1 for the burner: bob@sonic:~> ls -l /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 14 2005 /dev/cdrom -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 14 2005 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdd All you've got to do is create a script (which I call "vcdcopy") with the following content: =============================================== #!/bin/bash cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/cdrom toctoc cdrdao write --device /dev/cdrom1 toctoc rm toctoc eject dev/cdrom eject /dev/cdrom1 =============================================== And that's all there is to it. Now why can't k3b do that??? cheers, Robert
