i just wanted to ask how to copy a vcd on to hard disk .

-- karan babuta (hot_karan@yahoo.co.uk), December 22, 2000

Answers

all u have 2 do is copy the dat.file in mpeg folder to your hard disk.

-- mike (gokundrz@hotmail.com), December 23, 2000.

copying the *.dat file is only 50% of the work. WMP will play the *.dat file fine without any issue. However, if you are planning to encode this file to another format, then you may have a problem at that. The *.dat is almost the same as *.mpg, but the file header is not the same! so *.dat is not equal to *.mpg. What you need to do is to use VCDGear2.0 to do the copying for you. This software is free and available at www.vcdgear.com. This software will take the *.dat from your VCD disc, and convert it back to *.mpg for you. It is fast and effortless.

-- lnguyen (wingstarzz@hotmail.com), December 23, 2000.

If you copy the *.DAT out of the MPEGAV folder onto your HDD, you can then rename the *.DAT to say PART1.mpg - this works fine for me in most cases, and allows you to recreate the format using Adaptec EasyCD creator for reformating to VCD again.

If you want the software and a guide on how to do it, email me...

-- The Boss (theboss@cherrydvd.co.uk), September 25, 2001.