CANNOT OPEN .dat HELP

[Lupine]

Hello,

I recently bought my first VCD'd they will not play on my mac's CD-rom or DVD-rom. I have tried quicktime, and all the MACvcd players, with and without speed tools. DVD player is no help.
I also cannot convert the .dat's because the .dat's cannot be copied off the cd. The error message i get whenever i try any thing is "format not recognized" which dosent make any sense. So the encoding on these is "different".
anyone know any special trcks????

thanks

[AntnyMD]

If you boot into OS 9 directly, you can open the .DAT file in Quicktime. This is an option if you want to try it.

[Doc Boese]

What I would try in your situation is using the Application called "Video Lan Client". This one plays nearly everything except of Chess and Stud Poker.

You can get it here: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac

But it will only play on osx.

[musher70]

you can rename .dat from vcds once you tranfer to h/d
to .mpg plays then,though i have no apple product, i use
windows, not sure which media player u guys use....