Ripping a home video VCD on Linux or Windows with VLC or otherwise

MPlayer solution

To preview track for example 3 use command

mplayer vcd://3

To convert selected track use command.

mencoder vcd://3 -audio-preload 0.0 -o file.avi -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2000

VCD disk has usually many tracks, sample output from MPlayer:

MPlayer SVN-r36521-4.8.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
...
Playing vcd://3.
track 01:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:02:00  mode: 1
track 02:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:48:00  mode: 1
track 03:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  00:52:07  mode: 1
track 04:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  08:17:26  mode: 1
track 05:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  15:42:14  mode: 1
track 06:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  23:19:19  mode: 1
track 07:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  30:53:35  mode: 1
track 08:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  38:40:58  mode: 1
track 09:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  46:16:22  mode: 1
track 10:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  52:49:40  mode: 1
track 11:  adr=1  ctrl=4  format=2  61:44:66  mode: 1
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x288  (aspect 8)  25.000 fps  1150.0 kbps (143.8 kbyte/s)

Preview all tracks and rip if needed :)

Source: Convert VCD to AVI using mencoder