On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:29:28 +0800 Robert Storey <y2kbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Whoops! I was missing a "/" in front of dev/cdrom. Should be: #!/bin/bash cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/cdrom toctoc cdrdao write --device /dev/cdrom1 toctoc rm toctoc eject /dev/cdrom eject /dev/cdrom1
