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BillLin
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_ 		10. September 2002 @ 11:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm trying to burn a vcd with a .dat file that is around 540 megs using the latest version of Nero. The video is suppose to be around 53 minutes (and track 2 shows 53 minutes) but when I drag the file over to the left, only it only recognizes 9 minutes of video even though it shows 540 megs have been copied. So I burn the CD anyways and the video freezes after 9 minutes.

Also tried copying the .dat file directly to my HD using windows explorer but I get an error after about 10 seconds of copying. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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_ 		10. September 2002 @ 11:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You need to extract the .dat with VCDGear.
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BillLin
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_ 		10. September 2002 @ 11:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dRd, thanks for the response - just out of curiosity, what was the cause of the problem and what does VCDGear do? Thanks.
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_ 		10. September 2002 @ 11:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
DAT is not pure MPEG file, but it has additional header infos in it and that might and very often does cause problems when you try to handle the video. VCDGear extracts the pure MPEG file out of DAT and writes correct MPEG headers to the file.
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BillLin
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_ 		10. September 2002 @ 19:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok, I tried using VCDGear to extract the .DAT file and it hangs at the same spot. Looks like there were 2 tracks in the file, the first track is around 89 MB and when VCD Gear tries to write the second track, it just hangs.

Trying to copy the file in Windows Explorer has the same problem - it would copy up to 89 MB and then I get an MSDOS error message. The original VCD plays just fine. Any other suggestions?

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_ 		11. September 2002 @ 01:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The file obviously seems to be broken. There isn't much you can do in that case. You can try to use TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools to Demux the file and mux it back again and see if that helps, but I'm afraid you're out of luck now.
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