On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 01:50:57AM -0700, Shiraz Baig wrote: > Most of the Vedio CDs, that I purchase from Bazar are > of the form *.dat. But I have not been able to find > linux software which can run these CDs. > I have tried xmms, grip and sox etc. > But they cannot read the CDs. these files are usually more or less plain mpeg-1 or mpeg-2, although the disc format is different. i think most video players should have no problems. Certainly mplayer works (http://mplayerhq.hu) you could also look at cdxa2mpeg, vcdimager, vcdrip cheers -- Tim Orford