playing *.dat movie files

This is a discussion about playing *.dat movie files in the Windows Software category; Hi ! Win2k is unable to play *. dat movie files on VideoCd format from Cd. I had to copy such a file to hard disk and then I can see it. Is it problem of CD recorder software installed ? Plese Help Thanks.

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Hi !
Win2k is unable to play *.dat movie files on VideoCd format from Cd. I had to copy such a file to hard disk and then I can see it. Is it problem of CD recorder software installed ?
 
Plese Help
Thanks

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Mine work fine, I just use media player to run them

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I can't play VCDs at all in win2k!! It doesn't halp to copy the file to the harddrive first either.... I've tried the preinstalled MediaPlayer 6.4 and ASUS-DVD with the same result. I've also tried reinstalling Win2K.
 
Both programs can play VCDs in Win98 withput any problems.......

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it seems to be the SP1 problem.
my vcdz stopped playing after i applied the update. INstalling clean win2k without sp1 allowed them to be played again with no probs.

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Not really a good solution, but this may be helpful.
 
Try going to www.vcdgear.org It allows you to convert from dat to mpg (among other things)

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Mine is working even if the SP1 was installed. Im using a MoviePlayer software.!

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no probs playing .dat .avi .avi(divx) .mpg or whatever..
with or without sp1

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I have never installed SP1, so that can't be the problem... Anyone have any other ideas...?
There can't be anything wrong with the hardware, since I'm able to play VCDs in Win98...
 
I must also point out that it is ONLY VideoCD's (.dat) that doesn't work... MPEG, AVI and DIV-X works fine...