VLC can read it but I cannot?

[shimi]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a CD with a short video film on it. I can see the video using
> VLC but when I try to copy the
> VIDEO_TS I get an error:
>
>
> ls -al /media/cdrom/
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/.: Permission denied
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/..: Permission denied
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS: Permission denied
> total 0
> d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? .
> d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ..
> ?????????? ? ? ? ?                ? VIDEO_TS
> gabor at localhost:~$ ls -al /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS: Permission denied
>
>
> sudo ls -la /media/cdrom/
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS: Permission denied
> total 6
> dr--r--r-- 3 4294967295 4294967295   88 2006-09-26 16:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root       root       4096 2011-04-04 23:00 ..
> ?????????? ? ?          ?             ?                ? VIDEO_TS
> gabor at localhost:~$ sudo ls -la /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS
> ls: cannot access /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS: Permission denied
>
> Any idea why is that and how could I copy the video?
>
>
You could unmount /media/cdrom and just dd the whole device into an iso
file. Maybe it's even how VLC plays it :)

-- Shimi
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