Reading video from DVD-RAM



I want to read the video off a DVD-RAM (recorded on a Panasonic DVD
recorder, not a computer). I can mount it with mount_udf:

su-2.05b# mount -t udf -r /dev/acd0 /mnt
su-2.05b# ls /mnt
DVD_RTAV
su-2.05b# ls /mnt/DVD_RTAV/
VR_MANGR.BUP VR_MANGR.IFO VR_MOVIE.VRO

But many operation on VR_MOVIE.VRO don't work:

su-2.05b# ls -l /mnt/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO
ls: /mnt/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO: Bad file descriptor
su-2.05b# dd if=/mnt/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO >/tmp/t
dd: /mnt/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO: Bad file descriptor

Bizarrely, one of the things that *does* work is "cat":

su-2.05b# cat /mnt/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO >/tmp/t

And then I can view the video from /tmp/t with, for example, xine.

Can anyone explain what's going on? Is there some program that will allow
me to extract the individual recordings on the DVD-RAM?

I'm using FreeBSD 6.0.

-- Richard
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