Re: [xine-user] Demuxer

[Marcel J. <mph...@ho...>]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:30, Derrik Pates wrote:
> A .dat file? Is it from a VideoCD, or Super-VideoCD? If so, (a) .dat is
> NOT a file format, it's a metafile that exists on a placeholder filesystem,
> and (b) copied off the CD, it will be 100% useless to you, because the
> data in VideoCD and Super-VideoCD video discs is stored in raw frames on
> the disc. So if that's the case (and I'm guessing it is, if he made it),
> then the file won't work anyway. Tell your friend to use a VideoCD
> ripping tool on Windows (no, I don't know of any, I rarely use Windows),
> or install the VCDImager software (from www.vcdimager.org) on your Linux
> machine, and use the 'vcdxrip' tool to rip the MPEG system stream from
> the disc in a usable form.

vcdgear (http://www.vcdgear.com/) has a -dat2mpg option. I'm not sure it
works though.

Regards,
Marcel