(S)VCDs 2025
The other day I found my Internet Backup from around 1999 on CD-R.
Among the disks where "a few" (S)VCDs - a format probably nobody knows by now.
I didn't have time to deal with the whole vcdxrip and what-not. The data is not of high value, and given that 99% of CD-Rs read without error (despite their age and non-ideal storage), I figured I just don't care and use cdrdao.
cdrdao read-cd ----read-raw --device <Your device> --datafile disk1.data disk1.toc
Then just take that home and extract the data with a little bit of dd..
for f in *.toc; do ~/bin/vcd_extract.sh $f; done
