ok, here is a slight problem i ran into. lets say i make a 2500bit vcd. I wipe it off my system. For arguments sake lets say i have to recopy that .dat file the vcd has on the disc back onto my PC. Now thats done and i use the dat to mpeg converter to make it an mpeg again so i can re-burn. Well once it does this no programs will accpet it. The NTI which was used to make the stupid thing in the first place gives the message of "not a valid video cd 2.0) adaptec(for the hell of it) does the same. my question then is this, so if i make a highrate vcd and erase the thing off my pc, but i need a copy and instead of making a cd image(which i can do) lets say i wanted to add an extra clip to the project. Since it seems now nothing will accept the remade mpeg clip does this mean its impossible to re-do? Their must be something out there that can fix this problem?? The windows media player still played the file fine.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), March 10, 2000

Answers

I was able to get Nero to accept some .dat files by simply changing the extension to .mpg. This was odd because the original was encoded using a Broadway 4.0 and Nero won't accept broadway mpg's as valid files but I used adaptec to creat the .dat and then nero would accept them after I changed the extension

-- Al McCraw (amccraw@ix.netcom.com), March 13, 2000.

this will probably degrade quality, but see if an mpeg encoder such as xing, or panasonic will accept it, then encode with settings identical to the original

-- ndumu (ndumu@hotmail.com), March 13, 2000.