playing a .dat file

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  1. groupie

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    My VCD worked on my old laptop- which had Windows 95. The movie's been burnt on it. I had Windows XP now, and when I put the CD in, it doesn't play- infact there is a file with a media player icon on it, but when i click it it says it can't play the file. It also says its a .dat file and thats why it can't play it. I don't know what to do!
     
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    Use WinDVD, click open and navigate to the mpegav folder on the vcd and play the avseq01.dat file! Should play back perfect!
     
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    Thanks for that but can you suggest any other prg I could download besides WinDVD because my 30 day trial period is over and I really need to make this CD work right away! Thanks..
     
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  4. ABMone

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    do you have Cyberlinks Power Dvd?

    this will do it
    i dont know if they have a trial or not
     
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    Damn, no I don't, and they don't have a download apparently. Dammit.
     
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