Creating a VCD from a .DAT file

[AlanCake]

Hi

A friend of mine wants me to burn a VCD using a .DAT file.
I'll use Nero to do this. Do I need to first change/convert it back to .MPG or is it simply a case of adding it as the Video CD file to be burned?

Kind regards

Alan

[Cardosi]

AlanCake

The only way i know to make a compliant VCD starting
from a DAT file is converting first to Mpeg using
VCDgear then re-encode with TMPGEnc.

Regards,

Cardosi

[mol3000]

all u have to do is chge the .dat ext to a .mpg ext then its a mpeg.... no converting involved

[ember]

You don't even need to re-encode - just extract with VCDGear dat->mpeg and author using NERO or wutever burner software you have.

[kinneera]

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This is not correct, the .dat has extra header information relevant to playback devices that should be removed before the MPEG is fed back into a burning program (since they will be reconstructed). Thus the .dat should be run through something like VCDGear first.