How to open a dat files from a vcd?

Question

I am trying to open .dat files from a vcd but can not open them. Help please?

Answer 1

Install open the terminal and type

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

then open with movie player(totem)

Or install vlc media-player

sudo apt-get-install vlc 

Answer 2

The .dat file on VCDs cannot be opened directly on Linux as its a so-called "gateway" file. You can open such files using vlc and mplayer on Linux.

To open with mplayer,

$ sudo apt-get install mplayer 
$ mplayer vcd://<track> [-cdrom-device <device>]

Examples:

To play VCD track #1,

$ mplayer vcd://1

To play VCD track #1 when disk is not detected,

$ mplayer vcd://1 -cdrom-device /dev/sr0

To play with VLC, follow the earlier answer to install VLC and then.

$ vlc vcd://<device>

Example,

$ vlc vcd:///dev/sr0