xine and .DAT

[Edward]

Adel Essafi wrote:
> 
> 
> please list
> who succeeded to make xine player (installed using .rpm ) read .dat 
> clips!!!
> thanks
> 

You're not supposed to read .DAT files as a file. .DAT files are part of 
the (S)VCD specification, so if you have a proper (S)VCD disk, you need 
to set your player to play (S)VCD before it will work.

You CAN convert .DAT to .MPG, but I'm not going to go into that because 
we're way off topic, but if that's the way you want to go, then search 
google for 'DAT to MPG' or something like that.

Regards,
Ed.