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[FSchleyhahn]

Hello.  I recently went to Laos and Vietnam and purchased what I thought were CD's of music.  I am putting together a VideoWave production of our trip but when I attempted to rip these songs from the CD's, I discovered that they were VCDs and not CDs.  I am not familiar with VCDs but from what I can tell, the songs are on there and have a *.DAT extensions to them.  

Is it possible for Roxio to convert them to MP3 or something else that I can then import into my production as music?  If not, do you have any suggestions on programs that will?  I have searched this on google and have come up with a lot of $30 software packages that will do this but before I buy anything, I wanted to find out if EMC can do this for me.

Also, what is the purpose of VCD?  I can't even play it in my computer.

Thanks

[Jim_Hardin]

Open Roxio Sound Editor (Music-Audio – Edit and Transfer – Edit Audio) and click on Import from CD/DVD and point it to the VCD.

Windows Media Player will play any VCD, but you have to point it to the DAT file.

CinePlayer will do so with less fuss.

Early DVD Players would play them but as DVD became more and more common support for VCD and SVCD was dropped.

Let us know how you make out.

[FSchleyhahn]

Thanks for the reply.  My apologies, but I posted this under the EMC 2009 Forum and I am still running the EMC 10 Suite.  I tried to do this but I guess EMC 10 doesn't have this capability??? Please confirm.

Thanks again for your help.

[ggrussell]

Has been awhile, but I think you can change the file extension from .dat to .mpg.  Those files are MPEG 1.  You can then use Media Manager to extract the audio from the MPEG 1 file.

[Jim_Hardin]

Has been awhile, but I think you can change the file extension from .dat to .mpg.  Those files are MPEG 1.  You can then use Media Manager to extract the audio from the MPEG 1 file.

That is correct, the xxxxx.DAT file is an mpeg1

Edit: should specify that it is the xxxx..DAT file that you find in the MPEGAV folder…

Edited by Jim_Hardin, 13 January 2009 - 05:19 AM.

[cdanteek]

That is correct, the xxxxx.DAT file is an mpeg1

Edit: should specify that it is the xxxx..DAT file that you find in the MPEGAV folder…

This might help...

Pay close attention to post # 6 'Go to tools, folder options, view (tab), uncheck hide extensions for known file types.'


http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=47223

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