[linux-audio-user] Playing Dat files

[Tim Orford]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 01:50:57AM -0700, Shiraz Baig wrote:
> Most of the Vedio CDs, that I purchase from Bazar are
> of the form *.dat. But I have not been able to find
> linux software which can run these CDs.
> I have tried xmms, grip and sox etc.
> But they cannot read the CDs.

these files are usually more or less plain mpeg-1 or mpeg-2,
although the disc format is different.

i think most video players should have no problems.
Certainly mplayer works (http://mplayerhq.hu)

you could also look at cdxa2mpeg, vcdimager, vcdrip


cheers
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Tim Orford