Dat to Avi

BeerMonkey · Feb 2, 2007

I need to convert a Dat file to Avi. What program can do that?
A free one woild be nice.

dromano · Feb 3, 2007

Does it have to be AVI?
AoA Audio Extractor provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files. Extract audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats.
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...cs/Misc__Sound_Tools/AoA_Audio_Extractor.html

croizanne · Feb 6, 2007

I dont know if this will work in your case. Try changing the extension from .dat to.avi. if that doesn't work, then you can change it back to the previous extension.

jason H · Feb 6, 2007

You need to be more specific with the type of file it is....there are alot of .DAT files. If its a type of media I think I might be able to help....but video converting can get kinda tricky. check out www.videohelp.com

manmachine · Feb 6, 2007

embedded in a webpage) need to know the address and offset included with the parameters within the page. Ex: http://interaktiv.vg.no/php/video/genwmv.php?b2=4&wmv=mms://video.vg.no/vg/05/02/1108649954_us_train.wmv&start=00:00:00&slutt=99:59:59&end=.wvx
Check out in your temporary internet files folder, you'll find the datfile, but you can't read it unless the webpage code.

manmachine · Feb 6, 2007

sorry the previous message was damaged. Here it is :
actually you can't read datfiles since they never come alone, the player (or an activeX embedded in a webpage) need to know the address and offset included with the parameters within the page. Ex: http://interaktiv.vg.no/php/video/genwmv.php?b2=4&wmv=mms://video.vg.no/vg/05/02/1108649954_us_train.wmv&start=00:00:00&slutt=99:59:59&end=.wvx
Check out in your temporary internet files folder, you'll find the datfile, but you can't read it unless the webpage code.

manmachine · Feb 6, 2007

Jeez, seem like I cannot paste the whole link. Anyway here is an example of html code for reading datfiles. Copy-paste into a textfile and name it with the extension .htm

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" >
<CENTER>
<P> </P>
<P> </P>
<table id="video">
<object id="MediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" type="application/x-oleobject" width="512" height="453" name="MediaPlayer" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<param name="FileName" value="http://interaktiv.vg.no/php/video/genwmv.php?b2=4&wmv=mms://video.vg.no/vg/05/02/1108649954_us_train.wmv&start=00:00:00&slutt=99:59:59&end=.wvx">
<param name="AnimationatStart" value="false">
<param name="TransparentAtStart" value="true">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="false">
<param name="ClickToPlay" value="true">
<param name="ShowPositionControls" value="true">
<param name="SendMouseClickEvents" value="false">
<param name="SendMouseMoveEvents" value="false">
<param name="Volume" value="-600">
<param name="DisplayForeColor" value="0">
<param name="DisplayBackColor" value="16777215">
<param name="DisplaySize" value="4">
<param name="AllowChangeDisplaySize" value="true">
<param name="ShowTracker" value="true">
<param name="EnableTracker" value="true">
<param name="ShowAudioControls" value="true">
<param name="Autostart" value="true">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=windows&sbp=mediaplayer&ar=media&sba=plugin"
filename="mms://video.vg.no/vg/05/02/1108649954_us_train.wmv"
displaysize="4"
volume="-600"
allowchangedisplaysize="1"
width="512" height="456"
enabletracker="1"
displaybackcolor="16777215"
displayforecolor="0"
showstatusbar="1"
clicktoplay="1"
showaudiocontrols="1"
showpositioncontrols="1"
showtracker="1"
showcontrols="1"
animationatstart="0"
transparentatstart="1"
autostart="1"
alt="Film i Windows Media Player-format" name="MediaPlayer">
</embed>
</object>
</table></CENTER>
</body>
</html>

foogoo · Feb 6, 2007

This does a fine job...
http://www.vcdgear.com/index.html

manmachine · Feb 6, 2007

thanx foogoo, nice tool indeed, but not efficient on all datfiles. Needs to find a valid signature inside, and streaming mpeg as well. On my previous post you can test by yourself. One thing strange: the file is a standard .wmv on the server and is stored as .dat in the temporary internet folder.

chen2 · Feb 7, 2007

I'd like to use Xilisoft Video Converter. It can convert video file between DVD, VCD (.dat), SVCD, MOV, RM, RMVB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, etc. Here is the guide and faq of the software.

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