Open cue files?

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Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:40 pm

How do I open those files you download from usenet, used with movies? I know they contain the cd image, and under windows I had isobuster for that. I have found vcdgear, but I'm not keen to use unstable stuff

compu-tom · Post by **compu-tom** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:46 pm

mount the ISO image via the loop-back device:

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su -
mkdir /mnt/loop
mount -o loop /path/to/image.iso /mnt/loop
cd /mnt/loop

Is this what you're looking for?

Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:51 pm

That's about it, but I have found out it's a large .bin file, and mount doesn't like it. Should I specifiy a special thing? Because it now just wants a filesystem type specified (I do have loopback support).

nephros · Post by **nephros** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:54 pm

usually you have two files, a .bin and a .cue file.
the .bin is the actual image, and the .cue file helps cd writing programs to correctly burn it.

once you have both files you can write them with

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cdrdao write filename.cue

provided both files are in the same dir.

do a man cdrdao to learn about more options (like specifying your cd writer device, speed etc.). cdrdao is part of the cdrtools package.

Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Fri May 16, 2003 6:57 pm

nephros wrote:usually you have two files, a .bin and a .cue file.
the .bin is the actual image, and the .cue file helps cd writing programs to correctly burn it.

once you have both files you can write them with
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cdrdao write filename.cue
provided both files are in the same dir.

do a man cdrdao to learn about more options (like specifying your cd writer device, speed etc.). cdrdao is part of the cdrtools package.

I do have those 2 files, but I don't want to write them. How can I just browse them? (I'm sorry if my question was not very clear)

Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:13 pm

I have just tried bin2iso, but that complains about an index

TGL · Post by **TGL** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:54 pm

You can emerge this:

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*  app-cdr/bchunk
      Latest version available: 1.1.1
      Latest version installed: 1.1.1
      Size of downloaded files: 14 kB
      Homepage:    http://hes.iki.fi/bchunk/
      Description: Converts bin/cue CD-images to iso+wav/cdr

Then use it to convert your bin/cue to iso, and loop mount this iso as explain by compu-tom.

nephros · Post by **nephros** » Fri May 16, 2003 8:49 pm

found another one:

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*  app-cdr/virtualcd
      Latest version available: 0.4
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 418 kB
      Homepage:    http://outertech.com/robert/virtualcd/
      Description: mount bin/cue cd images

dev · Post by **dev** » Sat May 17, 2003 3:12 pm

You can open (if its a vcd/svcd) .bin files with mplayer. And it'll play fine. You can burn the bin/cue image with cdrdao, and maybe cdrecord (i just use k3b), or any frontend that utilizes it. You can also convert the bin/cue image to mpeg with vcdgear (in portage).

Good luck.

Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Sun May 18, 2003 7:33 am

Thanks for all the great answers!

Zarathustra[H] · Post by **Zarathustra[H]** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 8:01 pm

compu-tom wrote:mount the ISO image via the loop-back device:
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su -
mkdir /mnt/loop
mount -o loop /path/to/image.iso /mnt/loop
cd /mnt/loop
Is this what you're looking for?

This spits back an error message for me

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mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Matt

aanund · Post by **aanund** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 9:08 pm

did you compile support for the using loopback into your kernel or as a module?

Zarathustra[H] · Post by **Zarathustra[H]** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:02 pm

aanund wrote:did you compile support for the using loopback into your kernel or as a module?

*doh* Thanks for helping me with the obvious. I must have forgotten loopback support when I configured my first 2.6 kernel haha