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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Playing .dat files ?
  • From: Daniel Bauer <db-srvdwn@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:18:53 +0200
  • Message-id: <200604181118.53997.db-srvdwn@xxxxxx>
Am Montag, 17. April 2006 07:33 schrieb Ramanath Satapathy:
> Hi
> Is there any software to play .dat and .avi movie files in Suse linux 10.
> Where should i download them from ?

Not sure if it's true what I say:

As much as I know .dat is a mpg1 file from a video-CD. *Sometimes* it helps
just to rename the file to .mpg.

If mplayer doesn't play it, give a try to the VLC media player:
http://www.videolan.org/
Whenever I couldn't play something using my common programs, the VLC media
player could...

Daniel

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