Okay, so I wanted to watch some film my friend downloaded from the web and burned on 2 CDs. I put CD 1 into my drive and looked at the contents. There was one file called “blabla.dat” (okay, not blabla, but it was .dat ), and OSX suggested opening it with Graphic Converter. If I would’ve written my thoughts down it would be like “Hдh???”. Information said it was a “Mac Wavelets WBIN” document. I tried QT5Pro, nothing. Windowz Media Player 7, nothing. 3 differerent VCD players, nothing. I even tried FCP 2.0, nothing. My friends PC has no prob reading it.

Any experiences or suggestions??

Nevermind, solved the prob myself
Thanx anyways

enlighten us, how did you solve it? 

this is one of the things that annoys me about an overly simplistic file type scheme, what happens when ten apps all decide to use the .dat extension? 

I used a prog called “VCDGear” (http://www.vcdgear.com) to convert those files to .mpeg

Tell me if you get the OS X version of the app to run… I wanted to run it and it told me that OS X couldn’t find the file’s creator (I thought this was an app???). I used the classic version then. Works great.

On 2002-02-25 09:21, Firby wrote:

Tell me if you get the OS X version of the app to run… I wanted to run it

yup.  you have to run it from the terminal.  cd to where ever you put it, then type ./VCDGearOSX1.6e (the ./ is important unless it’s in your PATH). 

This will give you instructions on how to run it.

so if I wanted to convert a dat to a mpg I would type

there is a note that says a graphics port is on it’s way, but for now it is command line only. 

Oooooooooooooookay…. Guess I’ll continue to use the Classic one

I’m wondering where you guys get VCDs (aside from ones that someone burned)...  I think I saw one for sale once in a rack of cheap stuff at a computer store.  It has Three Stooges clips on it or something.  It seems that everyone but me uses VCDs.

1. - VCDs are quite popular in asia, in original in stores and on the markets as copies. In asia you can buy many different brands of stand-alone VCD players for your TV. Imagine you can buy 3 copy movies (each on approx. 2 CDs) on market for about 3 dollars. And you can buy the movies already when they are in the cinema, because like the DivX/SVCD rips they record it from cimema with a camera.

2. - VCDs are often used for porn movies some years agto all around thw world.

Legally *cough*, VCDs are also used in karaoke places and as the music videos you sometimes see in nightclubs.