Extracting contents of .bin files?

[TheWart]

If I have a .cue and a .bin file, how do I extract the contents in Linux? In windows, one could use some sort of 'isobuster' program or something.

I checked out freshmeat, and couldn't find anything.

Thanks.

[bmichaelsen]

There is a bin2iso program in portage. I just tested it with a VCD, without success. It might work for pure iso filesystems. However cdrdao can burn bin/cue-files and mplayer can play them directly if they are a VCD/SVCD.

[pple]

I also was looking for such program, to be able to extract a vcd file. I googled a lot and found something called CDemu too. It wasn't on the portage, so I didn't bother testing it, but if you have the courage, you could give it a shot. It's supposed to work in the same fashion as daemontools on windows.

I then proceeded to continue my noble mission =). Which lead me to finding a program called vcdgrab. It also isn't on portage, but the installation procedure didn't look too complicated, so I gave it a try and succesfully installed it.

The programs is pretty much in beta stage, but it worked very well. Project homepage can be found at: http://vcdgrab.sourceforge.net/
In order to install you have to extract the contents of the package:

tar -zxf vcdgrab-0.1.tar.gz
then do:
./configure
then:
./make

After that you (mostlikely, at least hopefully) got the executable and can do:
./vcdgrab /path/to/the/binfile/blah.cue
and as a result you got the avseq-file. Hopefully this is of any help.

[TheWart]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I actually found a program called VCDImage. It is in portage, and this is the command I found on a newsgroup to extract the MPG file.....it did work for me.

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vcdxrip -p --nosegments --nofiles -o /dev/null -b <your-bin-file-here>

[pjp]

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