(S)VCD - I've got no time for this

 (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