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How to copy Copy Protected VCD

Today i bought a nursery rhymes VCD from the market to my daughter. Even though it playing well with the VCD player, I just wanted to have a copy of that VCD in my laptop as it is easy to play it later on without finding the cd in the rack. Also i am pretty sure that those VCDs might not be able to read after 1 to 2 years time as the low quality of them. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and i can't play the vcd with the default settings. I tried with VLC and movie player. In movie player it is giving the error massage saying.."Could not read from resource". With VLC i am getting " File reading failed: VLC could not read the file." These are the step to play/copy the above type of VCDs, Open linux shell (Application --> Asseseries-->Terminal) Type "sudo apt-get install vcdimager" and press enter (You need to have internet connection) Type "vcdxrip". You will get warn massage and wait until it complete the operation and get the cursor