Conversion help..dat to .wav.

[JonPumin]

I've problem converting vcd dat files to .wav. I've all the tools that are nescessary to do this, but this individual vcd won't allow me to do it. This vcd is playing fine on a standalone dvd player, but I can't play it on the computer cd rom such WMP and other software vcd players? If it contains bad, or corrupted files, how come the standalone dvd players can play it? My process of converting dat audio files to wav files are like this, copy all dat files from an original vcd to a temporary folders, then used vcdgear to convert from dat files to mpeg files, and final, I used virtualdub to open up the mpeg files which enable me to save it as wave files. But this vcd won't even allow me to copy dat files to temp folder, it says invalid DOS..OS... What is up with that, does anyone have any ideas??? :?:

[Cornucopia]

I've problem converting vcd dat files to .wav. I've all the tools that are nescessary to do this, but this individual vcd won't allow me to do it. This vcd is playing fine on a standalone dvd player, but I can't play it on the computer cd rom such WMP and other software vcd players? If it contains bad, or corrupted files, how come the standalone dvd players can play it? My process of converting dat audio files to wav files are like this, copy all dat files from an original vcd to a temporary folders, then used vcdgear to convert from dat files to mpeg files, and final, I used virtualdub to open up the mpeg files which enable me to save it as wave files. But this vcd won't even allow me to copy dat files to temp folder, it says invalid DOS..OS... What is up with that, does anyone have any ideas???

Bad/corrupted--MPEG video is written onto VCD's such that if there is corruption, it'll still play reasonable well. Hardware players seek via the underlying tracks/sectors/Min:Sec:Fr. Software players seek mainly via the filesystem--with corruption, they wil have a hard time.

DON'T just copy the files. Extract/Rip them correctly and directly, either via VCDGear (.DAT->MPEG), VCDEasy (VCDxRip tool), or ISOBuster (Extract RAW-but convert M2F2 to Video).

Virtualdub sometimes doesn't extract audio correctly. Try TMPGEnc instead. Load mpg as VideoSource, [File | Output to file | WAVE file].

HTH,

Scott