VCD back to MPEG

[chelrob]

I created 3 VCDs from various MPEG files last year. There are about 70 chapters per VCD. Is there a way to convert the VCDs back to individual MPEG files?

Thanks.

[chelrob]

Looks like the answer is here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50027&highlight=svcd2dvdmpg

[ericfire]

VCD is MPEG. No need to convert it "back.";)

[idigvb]

Just to carry this a little further with a problem I'm encountering with an old VCD I made several months ago:

I want to extract the audio from a vcd, but when I try to copy the AVSEQ01.DAT file from the MPEGAV folder I get an error: invalid MS-DOS function. The VCD though plays OK on my standalone (MUSTEK V300).

I finally managed to extract the whole CD as an image and then extracted the .DAT file with UltraISO. However the resulting file when I rename it to mpg and analyse it with VCDeasy (VCDxMInfo.exe) gives me an analysis: 'MPEG0, PlayingTime=0.000s, Bitrate=0bps, PtsOffset=0000s, 306755 packets'.
Also TMPGenc will not load the file so I can demux the audio from it.

I probably have a corrupt mpeg that my standalone forgives. Is there a tool to correct this mpeg or am I doing everything wrong here?

Thanks for any responses. :)

[idigvb]

Update: For some reason both drives (dvd-rom and cd-rw) of my desktop produced the error I mentioned. When I used my laptop's drive instead, everything went ok. Go figure...

[echooff]

Use IsoBuster on it. It is a very powerful extracter.