How do I tell if a video is supposed to be .dat or .mpg, if some people on the net just simply rename .dat to .mpg for others to download?

-- Alex (lkc2000@hotmail.com), July 09, 2001

Answers

A video file should be in mpg, avi, asf, etc but not dat. It must be in video cd mpeg1 format for making a video cd playable on a multi read standalone dvd. The writing program converts the mpg format to a dat file while writing to the cd. Thus the faster the cpu the better the video cd. CdMaker Pro appears to do the conversion faster than Easy Cd.

-- ron (southrb@sprint.ca), July 19, 2001.