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nirVaan

Mar 18th, 2005 10:10 PM

coping stuff from the CD rom to the hard disk

hi guys

im new to c (im a undergrad in first year majoring in copmputer science).
but im curious to know how u can use a c program to acess a I/O device such as CD Rom which may have a VCD (vedio Cd) in it.and copy the vedio in to the hard disk as mpg. dont need coding just the general idea on how to achive this using "C" ( whether i need special libraries, any API programming , any direct bit manipulation etc...)

sorry for my english (my 1st language isnt english)

thanx in advance

Benoit

Mar 19th, 2005 12:47 AM

I'm probably wrong, about this, but I think you would need a file pointer, and open the file thats on the disk then put the data into a file on the harddrive

tempest

Mar 19th, 2005 2:06 AM

Well, that, and bit manipulation to convert file formats..

kurifu

Mar 19th, 2005 5:26 PM

Actually for archival purposes you probably want to get into ISO copying, and for that you need to learn to use the Windows ASPI Api.... good luck.

Dietrich

Mar 19th, 2005 5:34 PM

If the video is a commercial movie CD, forget about copying! These things are elaborately copy protected!

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