On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 14:06 -0700, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
Hi all,
I have been trying to play a video file in *.dat format, whatever the dat extension means.
The file plays well in windows. When i try to play it using mplayer it gives the following message and quits.
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: [snip] Playing avseq01.dat. Seek failed Exiting... (End of file)
Did you copy this file from the VCD to disc, or are you trying to play it directly from the VCD? If the latter, try mplayer vcd://1 (play with the number) AFAIK windows understands the vcd filesystem format, and you can copy the file off, change the extention to .mpg and play it in any player, provided you have the correct codecs installed. For some reason linux doesn't so the only way to get the file off the disc, is something like: mencoder vcd://1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o outfile.avi Which gives you an avi container with the VCD stuff inside, that you can play as normal. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com