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Title: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 27, 2006, 01:02:25 pm: Is it possible to rip both the songs and the video from an enhanced music CD using MC? I seem to be able to rip the songs but not the video. If MC can't rip the video does anyone know a program that can? I'd like to rip it to mpeg.

I'm using 11.0.302 BTW and don't want to upgrade unless this functionality is specifically included in a higher version.
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: JohnT on January 27, 2006, 01:53:54 pm: Just copy the video file to your hard disk using windows explorer.
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 27, 2006, 02:45:30 pm: Quote from: JohnT on January 27, 2006, 01:53:54 pm
Just copy the video file to your hard disk using windows explorer.
I can only see a CDA in explorer. Any idea how I get to see the video file?
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: Mr ChriZ on January 27, 2006, 03:02:17 pm: May seem a dumb question but is your explorer set to see all hidden files?
If you don't know the setting is under
Tools->Folder Options->View Tab
->Files and folders->Hidden Files and Folders
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 27, 2006, 03:49:30 pm: Yes I see hidden files, though mpegs would not be hidden files.
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: NickM on January 27, 2006, 07:40:44 pm: On your VCD, the video files will have a .DAT extension. Just copy them across to your HDD and rename *.DAT to *.AVI - assuming you are not violating any copyright on the VCD.
nick
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: marko on January 28, 2006, 02:55:57 am: interesting...

I only see the data files on the CD I'm looking at, not the cda files, and the videos are .mov files (quicktime).
it's a "CD Extra" disc. is an "enhanced CD" something else entirely?
(tracks rip just fine, which is a big improvement. this cd has caused MC more than a few problems in the past)
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: Jaqqe on January 28, 2006, 03:07:22 am: I dont't have a solution for the original problem, but I have in the past noticed that in some CD-drives I could see the autdio tracks (cda) but some drives showed me the data files, like videos. I never found any reason for this, so I assumed it was either an OS or hardware issue and left it with that...

Oh, and the audio tracks always worked in these cases, but videos were rarely seen.
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 28, 2006, 05:00:33 am: Quote from: Jaqqe on January 28, 2006, 03:07:22 am
I dont't have a solution for the original problem, but I have in the past noticed that in some CD-drives I could see the autdio tracks (cda) but some drives showed me the data files, like videos. I never found any reason for this, so I assumed it was either an OS or hardware issue and left it with that...

Oh, and the audio tracks always worked in these cases, but videos were rarely seen.
Yes that's exactly what seems to be happening to me. I wonder if let my guard down once in teh past and let something autorun and let some nasty device drivers onto my machine?
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 28, 2006, 05:08:09 am: I just tried on another pc and I can see the .mov files. On my pc neither of my DVD drives can see anything but cda files. Any ideas what to try to fix it?
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: Jaqqe on January 28, 2006, 05:09:45 am: Quote from: risingdamp on January 28, 2006, 05:08:09 am
Any ideas what to try to fix it?

No but hurry up and copy those video files while you can ;D
Title: Re: Enhanced Music CD's
Post by: risingdamp on January 29, 2006, 05:14:32 am: Iwas getting horrible BSODs too on some occassions when I tried to access the DVD-ROM with the enhanced CD in. Anyway I solved it! The culprit was DVD/CSS Region Free software. Once removed no more BSODs and now I can see the folders on the CD.