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Old 08-14-2004, 02:00 PM   #1
Subramanya
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Question How can i play dat files in linux


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I am able play video cd using Xine, even though it ha .dat format.But i am not able to play the file from the memory (Hard Disk).Any body please help.
 
Old 08-15-2004, 04:45 AM   #2
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VCDs have dat files on them - as far as I know - is this a VCD you are trying to copy and play?

there are two ways I know of how to achieve what you are trying:

there is a tool called vcdimager (or similar) which will copy the whole VCD and not just the dat files

mplayer can play VCDs - and if it can play them it can also dump them to your disk.

to play it:
mplayer vcd://1

to dump it:
mplayer vcd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile ...

this should work - I don't have VCDs but this worked with every format I ever had - I use it to dump DVDs to disk
 
  


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