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>VCD's look like standard iso9660 filesystems, but they are not. Attempting to use the filesystem entries for other than pointers to the start of files will result in pointing off the disk due to invalid data.

I wonder what they were thinking, whoever designed the VCD.

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Similar to Audio CDs. Considering that that was a time when these were more likely being played in an actual hardware player than put into a PC, I don't think the choice was necessarily wrong. Also, I think for CDs with a file system on them, the error correction was necessary, thus reducing content size.

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