How do I extract the .DAT from a .bin?

[collim]

cdfs consistently crashes my machine. Is there another, safer, way to un-mode2cdmaker a .bin file?

[collim]

Replying to myself here.

A bit of lateral thinking provided the solution.
You can play a .bin file with

mplayer -vcd 2 -cuefile file.cue

and you can save the movie with -dumpstream, so using

mplayer -vcd 2 -cuefile file.cue -dumpstream

writes the movie to the file stream.dump as an avi or ogm or whatever.
I still haven't figured out how to get the files from the mode1 track though. Any suggestions?

[kastro68]

I don't really understand the question,

but you can open or extract *.bin files using the latest winrar.

[collim]

I tried rar 3.20 beta 3 (for linux) and it makes an attempt but bugs out with a "CRC failed, unexpected end of archive" error. Maybe the bin file is corrupt, though I can play the movie OK. I'll try it on another bin file when I have one. Thanks for the idea.

[omol]

Originally posted by collim
I tried rar 3.20 beta 3 (for linux) and it makes an attempt but bugs out with a "CRC failed, unexpected end of archive" error. Maybe the bin file is corrupt, though I can play the movie OK. I'll try it on another bin file when I have one. Thanks for the idea.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 _your_dot_bin_ _some_mount_point_

regards,
omol

[collim]

Mounting as iso9660 works for an XCD but not for the .bin file it's made from. Sometimes I can burn it first and then mount it but often the reason I need to get into the .bin file is it's too big to burn without overburn (which my drive won't do) and I need to cut it down a bit.

[omol]

Originally posted by collim
Mounting as iso9660 works for an XCD but not for the .bin file it's made from. Sometimes I can burn it first and then mount it but often the reason I need to get into the .bin file is it's too big to burn without overburn (which my drive won't do) and I need to cut it down a bit.

As long as the bin file is a valid iso9660 session/disc image, either mode 1 or 2, you can mount it via loop file system. What is your setting while creating the bin file?

regards,
omol

[collim]

I've tried a .bin I downloaded but haven't burned yet, one I had burned then read off the XCD with cdrdao and one I created with:

mode2cdmaker -f file.txt -m movie.ogm -o movie

None of them would mount. Maybe an XCD .bin isn't a valid iso9660?
Generally the .bins I want to get into are not ones I have created myself.

[josetann]

I've done this in windows, don't know if the required programs will work in wine or not (they do under win4lin, that's where I do all my windows stuff). I haven't posted this howto yet but feel free to try it out, if it works let me know. www.thetechguide.com/howto/extractsvcd (http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/extractsvcd)

[collim]

Yes CDMage does work in Wine, apart from a pixmap error but that is trivial. I successfully extracted a file from track 1 of a downloaded .bin using it. Thanks very much.

[josetann]

Was it a VCD or SVCD or other? I only had SVCD images to test it on but assume it would work on others. Thanks!

[collim]

It was an XCD.

http://xcd.sourceforge.net/

[josetann]

Just an update, I found a better way to extract the mpg file. It seems that mplayer will play anything you throw at it but not everything is this lenient. I couldn't author the resulting mpgs into a DVD. IsoBuster has an option to filter out just the mpg portion, then I am able to import that mpg file into DVD-lab (haven't actually tried to author, but at least it's a step in the right direction). Also, any mpg files you extracted but did not merge can have isobuster ran on them, just do the same steps (it will throw up an error or two, ignore them). But any that are already merged, it only goes as far as the first segment, then stops.

I have updated my site with the new info if you'd like to check it out.

[collim]

I don't run Windows or have a DVD writer so I'm not much of a judge but your site looks fine to me :)

Incidentally, going back to the (win)rar thing: I tried it on another .bin and it didn't recognize it at all. I think it will extract any rar files from a .bin but not anything else.