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r-ertl
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on: November 16, 2009, 11:32
I made a 4-minute Video CD (VCD) using NERO on my XP computer. Just out of curiosity, I tried to play it on my Mac OS 7.6.1 computer using Quicktime 3.0.2 by opening the MPEGAV folder on the VCD and dragging the file called “AVSEQ01.DAT” on to the Quicktime Movie Player icon. Surprisingly, Quicktime made a small file called “AVSEQ01.DAT (Converted)” in the Translated Documents folder inside the Preferences folder and then played the video. Even though Quicktime can read and play the video, I cannot copy the “AVSEQ01.DAT” file from the VCD onto the Mac’s hard drive using Mac OS 7.6.1 (a disk error was reported). I can, however, use my XP computer to copy the “AVSEQ01.DAT” from the VCD on to its hard drive. I can then transfer that file to my Mac’s hard drive. After doing this I changed the type and creator settings to TEXT and hscd which is what I see when I look at this file on the VCD. When I then drag this copied file on to the QT Movie Player icon, a Quicktime extension dialog comes up which says that it is translating “AVSEQ01.DAT” from an unknown document format to a Quicktime movie. The progress bar moves very slowly and after awhile, a message comes up that says that it has run out of memory. So my question is, does anyone know how to convert the "AVSEQ01.DAT" file from a VCD to a file that can be saved on a Mac OS 7.6.1 hard drive and played by Quicktime 3.0.2? |
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defor
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16 MB Posts: 29
Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 17:52
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I'll have to look through my archives, but the vcd dat is usually a bit... messy to work with directly in quicktime... You're going to want a proper vcd player app- I do remember having success with a couple apps about 10-11 years back. The one thign to watch out for ALWAYS is the "converting from an unknown format" message.. that's maclink saying it's reading the file in as plain text and doing whatever with it.. in the case of quicktime, it's making a movie with a text track with the contents of the file read as just plain text... if renaming the file to .mpg doesn't work you're going to need a real vcd player app.
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defor
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16 MB Posts: 29
Reply #2 on: November 16, 2009, 17:52
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I'll have to look through my archives, but the vcd dat is usually a bit... messy to work with directly in quicktime... You're going to want a proper vcd player app- I do remember having success with a couple apps about 10-11 years back. The one thign to watch out for ALWAYS is the "converting from an unknown format" message.. that's maclink saying it's reading the file in as plain text and doing whatever with it.. in the case of quicktime, it's making a movie with a text track with the contents of the file read as just plain text... if renaming the file to .mpg doesn't work you're going to need a real vcd player app.
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r-ertl
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8 MB Posts: 15
Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 06:34
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Thanks for the tip to check out VCD player applications. The "Read Me" file for the application called "Simple VCD" mentions that QuickTime Pro and QuickTime Movie Player version 2.5 (which is free) can be used to save VCD DAT files as QuickTime movies. The resultant QuickTime movie is only slightly larger than the original DAT file. So this answers my question of how to save a DAT file from a VCD on to a Mac OS 7.6.1 hard drive so that it can later be played using Quicktime.
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