HELLO THERE ! I NEED HELP..BIG TIME. I JUST BOUGHT A VIDEO CD (VCD) DISC AND THE SELLER TOLD ME THAT I WILL BE BALE TO WATCH THE CD ON MY PC, BUT IN REALITY IS NOT EXACTLY WORKING......

FIRST OF ALL THE MACHINE CAN'T READ THE (DAT) FILES AND SECONDLY NONE OF THE MPEG PLAYERS HAVE ANY SUPPORT FOR THIS FILES.

WHAT SHOULD I DO ?

PLEASE HELP ME.

MAYBE I SHOULD UPDATE MY CD-ROM DRIVER OR SOMETHING, I SIMPLY DON'T KNOW.

HELP ME...........

-- Oleg Vishnivetsky (olegvish@yahoo.com), May 14, 2000

Answers

i and a few others have had this problem lately. ok first try this go to www.microsoft.com and dl the latest version of windows media player. Once done go to its options and make sure "all formats" is selected, now try it agin. If this still fails, go to www.downloads.com type in for 'jiao mpeg player" then have it search across the c-net network this will play it BUT be sure to Uncheck most of the video boxes in the windows media player as the two sometimes compete

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), May 14, 2000.

Your are missing the scsc1hlp.vxd file in your windows\system\iosubsys subdirectory. Search the data base for a full answer I gave about 2 months ago. This file is required to make the IDE CDROM to act like a SCSI drive so that .DAT files can be read or copy to the HD. THe file is in one of the CAB files on the W98 or W95 disk. Copy this file to the above subdirectory and you will no longer get any errors. Good luck

-- klebsiella (klebsiella@visto.com), May 14, 2000.

klebsiella ,

hmm thats rather interesting and i am going to look into it, but i have reformatted quite a few times and my scuzzy burner has no problem, but the dvd rom that came with the system is another story. at anyrate from my reformats the dvd rom has never been able to play xvcds, so it might not be just that a file is missing. Up until recently i tried the jiao mpeg player and this (although not too well) has let my dvd rom play my xvcds.

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), May 14, 2000.

You could also get vcdgear ( www.vcdgear.org ) and select dat -> mpg conversion. This will play in any media player, you jest need 700 MB of free space.

Really what you need is a good vcd player.

-- eric (eric@snowmoon.com), May 17, 2000.

I also have the same problem, i burned a CD for playing in VCD (PAL format)...but i cannot open it in the normal PC softwares like (Real or mediaplayer)....this is a request rather than an answer....

if anybody knows something...please send me an mail....

-- Jay (kjayateerth@rediffmail.com), April 05, 2003.

One thing very simple that I did... I downloaded WinDvd Platinum or whatever version of this software and after inserted my VCD disc which works perfectly. Also, you can save whatever file *.DAT and save in your Hard Disk and after rename the extension to *.MPG, and play it with another player, although it doesn't work always, often it gave me goods results (I think because some programs needs a specific extension and not like always happens: a specific format can open files)

-- José Rodríguez (Joseh_95@latinmail.com), May 07, 2004.