I have always had problems while playing VCDs on my Linux machine. The VCD file system is still not supported by the Linux kernel. But all is not lost. We have an utility called vcdxrip. This is the command:
vcdxrip -i /dev/sr0 -v -p -t 1 –nofiles –nosegments
Here i denotes the mount point of the CDROM drive, t denotes the Track Number. This way, a VCD can be ripped from a Linux machine. I have tested this on Fedora (10) and it works great.