Thread: converting Dat to Avi file software?

A .dat (in a video CD) *is* a .AVI file. Just rename it, no need to convert.

Thought dat different to avi as much larger?, anyway should have asked on here before and saved hours of looking, cheers both.

You can compress an AVI smaller typically (depends on which codecs are used). But just renaming it will work as your media player will work out for itself what it needs to play the file (this might not work for some hardware media players though)

dat is just MPEG

Super Video Converter (eRightSoft) - converts anything to/from anything.

Free.

those VCD dat file are MPEG , not avi - avi is a container format

Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved), known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.

Audio Video Interleave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Super Video Converter from eRightsoft.

Might want to check out Format factory as well. It changes most video, photo, and audio files you have.
Its free but just make sure you un tick any boxes that offer to make a certain search engine your default or to change your home page. other than that works a treat !

no need for converter,

just type this command: ren *.dat *.avi

the usual retards (Harryxbox) have it wrong,

^ Haven't we been here before?

^ probably, you probably had to google what "ren" was and was moaning about it

No, I think it was the fact that you can't tell the difference between .mpg and .avi.

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yes, avi is a container these days, not a video format, you illiterate dummy, this is not 1990

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