On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:35:42 +0800, Kent Emia <kent-cdr(a)greendot.com.ph>
wrote:
hi there i have a similar problem with you but i think im the worst
of
the worst ...
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 14:50, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have played files with extensions *.dat with both 'xine' and
> 'mplayer'.The vcd of the film "Unfaithful" has three files in the
'MPEG'
> folder,Music01.dat,Music02.dat,Music03.dat.I played this file from the
> cd
> in Windows Media player as well as SiS mmplayer.Now I copied those files
> to a separate directory and later opened them using both Mplayer and
> Xine.
i can't play .dat file both in xine ... im using the gui in the mplayer
its fine ... don't know whats wrong with my xine ....
You can play *.dat files - not off VCD - but if you copy them in Windows
to a medium ( e.g.,hard-disk )
and then open in Xine or Mplayer. I am told there is a tool for that in
Linux too. Not tried yet.
Your version of Xine may be broken. It seems to keep breaking always.
>
> Xine even has a file filter for *.dat type of files.Mplayer like its
> namesake Mediaplayer doesn't automatically filter the files but once
> selected using filter "all files",it plays it anyway.But both these
> programs fail to run the same files from the CD when tried with Play
> File.(They can very well play the VCD containing these files)whereas if
> these files are copied to harddisk they can play it.
>
> Curiously within Linux,these files cannot be copied off CD.But,once in
> Windows,you can copy them and store them.Both Xine and Mplayer play them
> now once they are stored like this. And that's how VCDs are kept on the
> harddisk by all my friends here.
i tried extracting/copying the .dat file from a windows pc ... i can ...
>
> This is curious.Could anybody shed more light?
>
> Parameshwara Bhat
>
Parameshwara Bhat
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