[MPlayer-users] how to copy an i/o-error cd

[Matthias Schwarzott]

On Monday 06 October 2003 23:16, gabor wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
>
Hi,

> i have an avi file on a cd.
>
> when i try to copy the file to my harddisc,
> it tells me that he can't do that because there
> was an i/o error.

>
> but now i'll have to return the cd, so i'd like
> to copy the avi somehow to my harddrive.
> it doesn't matter if it will contain wrong or no
> data at the place of the i/o error.
>
> is there a way to do this?

I use the program dd_rescue for this purpose.
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
>
> thanks,
> gabor

Matthias