1. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148643 VCD's don't have an ISO9660 filesystem like data CD's, so you can't mount them. You can copy them using a CD burning utility like k3b or cdrdao. If you want to dump the video to your hard drive, install mplayer and type "mencoder vcd:// -ovc copy -oac copy" mencoder vcd://1 -ovc copy -oac copy -o 2. solution 2 (from GNU vcdimager) vcdxrip It means the same thing as: vcdxrip --cdrom-device and using the short option: vcdxrip -C or vcdxrip --track 1