I just need MPEG from my DAT file.

[Subhash]

I have a VCD that was burnt in PAL region and not NTSC (I am not sure if it matters). It wouldn't play on my DVD player because I suspect it has one menu item. I know it is a pain to play a VCD with menus and chapters so I stay away from being fancy when I burn my VCD's. But this one was sent to me from abroad and now all I want to do is just extract the MPG file from AVSEQ001.DAT file and I will burn another VCD of my own without menus/chapters etc.

I have been reading through the forums and a lot of people suggested ISOBUSTER so I downloaded that and tried the option "Extract but FILTER only M2F2 Mpeg frames". as suggested by most. I get the progress bar and everything but the target file always comes out empty (0 bytes). I have tried several times, but no difference.

I downloaded version 1.8. While it is converting, the status line says "Mode 2 Form 1", whatever that means.

Please help..........

Thanks.

[Krispy Kritter]

I would expect you are actually having a disc error, but that is just a guess. Does the disc play properly on your pc?

First I would try just copying the dat file to your HD and then rename the file from .dat to .mpg. Most times this will work.

If that doesn't work, then there are many guides on how to do this using different tools.

[Subhash]

I would expect you are actually having a disc error, but that is just a guess. Does the disc play properly on your pc?

First I would try just copying the dat file to your HD and then rename the file from .dat to .mpg. Most times this will work.

If that doesn't work, then there are many guides on how to do this using different tools.

Yes. The DAT file works fine when I open with Window Media Player.

As for copying DAT file and renaming to MPG, I believe I read somewhere not to use Windows to copy DAT files. So, I am not sure if it is OK to do that.

Thanks.....

[jimmalenko]

Copying DAT files shouldn't be an issue - you can copy EXEs, DLLs .... you name it. I'm more concerned with the renaming "DAT to MPG" part, as the file retains its DAT headers and not proper MPEG ones. This is why IMO you should always extract it properly. VCDGear is another tool that should be able to do the extraction from DAT to MPEG for you.

[mazen97]

Converting DAT to MPEG is very easy. Just user VCDGear 3.55 which is a free tool and click on vcdgear button and then choose dat -> mpg from the drop down list and then load the dat file and then click start.
That is it.

[Subhash]

Thank you all in particular to Mazen97.

I first used TmpGen which did the job but took full time of length of the dat file i.e. about 70 minutes. Then I used VcdGear suggested by Mazen and it did the same job in 6 minutes. What a difference.

Thank you again.......

Subhash.