On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 15:57 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Friday 15 October 2004 03:21 pm, Shishir Birmiwal wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > Is there any way of playing a vcd *.dat file in linux? I tried
> > > playing it using mplayer but could not do so.
> >
> > Well you can't play a "DAT file" directly from the VCD, as it is not a
> > regular file. Mplayer has a command-line option to playback VCDs. Read the
> > mplayer documentation to know what that option is (use "man mplayer").
> > Also, you *might* have to specify the CD-ROM device manually; for which
> > there is another option in the mplayer docs.
>
> Who says ? I play .dat files directly from VCD's using mplayer. It works.
> For mplayer:
> To play VCD: mplayer vcd://1
> To specify cdrom device (say it's hdc)
> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdc vcd://1
>
that is directly playing a vcd. if yu want to play a .dat file, for e.g.
just a video clip saved on your system, yu may not be able to do so in
the default scenario. what yu need to do is create a symlink and rename
that symlink to .mpg and it'll work.
in nautilus doing that is very simple, just middle-click drag the file
from the nautilus window to desktop. it'll give yu options to create a
link or copy the file, choose 'Link here' and then rename that link
to .mpg. if yu're using gnome, it'll also automatically create a
thumbnail for yu and then yu can easily play the file in totem or
mplayer
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