[ILUG] playing vcd in redhat linux

[hrishy samant]

could you plaese elaborate how i can play vcd with
*.dat format with xmms.do you mean to say taht i have
to just rename *.dat to *.mpeg and then use xmms i am
on red hat linux.


hrishy


--- Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net> wrote: > On
Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:52:57PM +0100 or so it is
> rumoured hereabouts, 
> John P. Looney thought:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Martin
> Donlon mentioned:
> > > Xine handles .dat vcd files, just rename it to
> .mpg
> > > VCD .dat files are just MPEG1 files with a small
> header on top, I'm not
> > > too sure how many bytes need to be snipped
> though.
> > 
> >  Is the thing so braindead that it gets the data
> type from the filetype ?
> 
> maybe it was written first for win32 (I know I
> certainly didn't think of
> file content at all in my dos/win programming days. 
> The .??? was all that
> got checked.  I know better now though).
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