Opening Or Playing a .Bin Format Video?

[niteghost]

Downloaded a Chinese Drama Series, I think is about 4 ~ 5 gigs, and it is "chopped" into 200 MB, for each Episode. Apparently, this guy uploaded each episode, in a >>>>>>>> .Bin Media format, instead of the usaual, Rmvb,Mp3 or Avi........GRRRRRRRR!!!,I have tried everything to Open and play this .Bin Media Format. Have use VLC,Media Classic,3Gp,GOM, Damean Tools &,Aicohol 120% Virtual Drive, to mount the Image BUT to NO avail.
Even went as far as renaming the File extension, also use Better File Renamer BUT to NO avail.......
What else can I do, beside, creating a Cue Sheet, and maybe tryi burning it to a CD-RW and play it..........Ideas?...PLEASE.THanks

[jman98]

.BIN might be a BIN/CUE file. Nero can burn those. ImgBurn probably can too. It's a CD image file format. Daemon Tools should be able to mount it if you want to check it prior to burning.

[jagabo]

If Daemon Tools couldn't mount it burning it to a DVD won't work.

I suspect you have a multipart RAR archive. Try opening the first one with WinRAR and extracting the contents.

[jman98]

Good catch, jagabo. Somehow I missed that Daemon Tools reference.

If WinRAR or some other RAR unarchiver doesn't work, you're out of luck.
That's what happens sometimes with downloads - dumbasses don't know what they are doing when they make stuff available and you can't do anything with what they made.

[poisondeathray]

What is the exact extension of the 200MB files?

If WinRAR doesn't work, they may be .001, .002....files, and HJ-Split might work

Also sometimes images created by PowerIso or MagicIso don't mount correctly with Daemon Tools or Alcohol120. So you might try them (I think they might have free trials)

[niteghost]

If Daemon Tools couldn't mount it burning it to a DVD won't work.

I suspect you have a multipart RAR archive. Try opening the first one with WinRAR and extracting the contents.

it is Not in RAR format, it is already in .bin format, please see screenshots:


Files After Download & before conversion [ I convert 1 File to see it works or Not >> Mpeg]

http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a1me7.png

One of the Files that I concerted to Mpeg and try to Open BUT to No avail :

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a2jc0.png

[niteghost]

What is the exact extension of the 200MB files?

If WinRAR doesn't work, they may be .001, .002....files, and HJ-Split might work

Also sometimes images created by PowerIso or MagicIso don't mount correctly with Daemon Tools or Alcohol120. So you might try them (I think they might have free trials)

Please see the screenshots that I have just provided

[jagabo]

I recommend you enable filename extensions so you can see the real extension. .BIN is often used just to mean "binary" file. It could be anything.

What do you mean you converted one to MPEG? You just renamed it? That doesn't make in an MPEG file. Try opening it with GSpot or MediaInfo. What do they say about the file?

Media players are pretty good about detecting the true file type of media files even if they are renamed. So if you opened one with a media player and it couldn't recognize it as a video, it isn't any of the popular video formats.

Post a hex dump of the first part of the file. VirtualDub has a hex editor: Tools -> Hex Editor -> File -> Open.

[TJohns]

Might be a single DVD image files that's been poorly split into pieces for distribution(?)

Try doing a "manual" join of the files...

1) start a Command Prompt in the folder with the pieces
2) type the following command (include all pieces)
COPY /B MV01.BIN+MV02.BIN+MV03.BIN+(etc, etc...) JOINED.BIN
3) now try mounting the JOINED.BIN with DeamonTools or such, or burn onto a blank DVD, or play directly with VLC

Trevor

[niteghost]

Might be a single DVD image files that's been poorly split into pieces for distribution(?)

Try doing a "manual" join of the files...

1) start a Command Prompt in the folder with the pieces
2) type the following command (include all pieces)
COPY /B MV01.BIN+MV02.BIN+MV03.BIN+(etc, etc...) JOINED.BIN
3) now try mounting the JOINED.BIN with DeamonTools or such, or burn onto a blank DVD, or play directly with VLC

Trevor

I think that might be it, That is why I could NOT play those Individual Files, it must be a a whole DVD of some sort. Hm..............It might take a long time to Join all these Files, about 20 of them.......

[jagabo]

Someone already suggested HJ-Split which can join split files. I believe they need to be named with numeric extensions though: file.001, file.002, file.003...

[niteghost]

Anyway, the problem is solved, thru. changing the File Options. The Forum FAQ, explained it where I downloaded those Files, very SIMPLE!! Thanks again for the help, guys, I appreciate it, even though None of the suggestions here were the "Right" ones.

[jagabo]

Why don't you explain what you did so the next person with the same knows what to do? The forums aren't just about other people helping you.