Re: [VCDImager] Creation of bin/cue files from a cd?

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

ok, I'll try to be more verbose on the conversion needed from cdrdao's toc
file format, to a .cue file format... :-)

.toc files (for VCDs) look like:

CD_ROM_XA
TRACK MODE2_RAW
DATAFILE "videocd_1" 00:16:00
TRACK MODE2_RAW
DATAFILE "videocd_2" 48:20:10
TRACK MODE2_RAW
DATAFILE "videocd_3" 00:14:20

(cdrdao 1.1.4 was used with --read-raw in this case... if you don't use
that, you get 2336 blocks instead of 2352 ones... should work too, but
you must use MODE2/2336 instead of /2352 in the .cue file...)

the bin file has been split into to data files, which would just have to
be joined again (e.g. by cat(1)...

then you'd just to calculate the cummulated index positions (they are
in mm:ss:ff format, as expected...)

the converted .cue file would look like this (assuming a
$ cat videocd_{1,2,3} > videocd.bin
had been issued)

FILE "videocd.bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:16:00
  TRACK 03 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 48:36:10

that's it...

a .pl oder bash/gawk script to do those steps (cat'ing and converting) in
one command would be quite easy...

but as a longterm solution cdrdao should be enhanced by this quite simple
additional output format for images... cause that'd the right way IMHO...

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, C.Hays wrote:
> I would happily bear someone's firstborn :P  for anything (perl script or 
> otherwise) that would create bin/cues from previously burned vcds..
> I lean toward burning them, and watching, and then re-binning them if someone 
> I know wants one..
> Right now my ONLY linux shortcoming is the lack of ease with which that can 
> be done..a trip into win2k is necessary :<
>
> If cdrdao can make the bins, I can always save the initial cue files..however 
> do you know exactly what the command line syntax is, I tried most
> everything, and could only manage to do some sort of cd to cd copy?
>
> By the way, thanks for entertaining my questions, as this prolly isnt the 
> place, but i imagine, im not the only one with these questions
>
> Regard,
>
> Cherie
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, C.Hays wrote:
> >
> > > cdrdao will NOT "create" bin/cues.
> > actually it does create the .bin part of them...
> >
> > btw, there's a win32 port of cdrdao too...
> >
> > the resulting .toc file can be quite easily transformed into a .cue
> > file...
> >
> > (has anyone done yet some perl script or alike for that purpose?)
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > > > "C.Hays" wrote:
> > > > > I love your little utility but have only one request, how .about 
> > > > > something that will CREATE bin/cues from cds???
> > > > > I searched and searched and found nothing :<...
> > > >
> > > > For windows: cdrwin
> > > > For dos: dao
> > > > For linux: cdrdao
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps
> > > >
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