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I am trying to play a video cd with VLC media player which has octet stream and .dat file extension but VLC media player is not able to play individual files from VCD.

I've tried:

 sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

and tried opening the file with videos but of no use how can I play the video in ubuntu.

I can play whole VCD in VLC player but not the "single" dat files separately as it opens in windows media player

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  • .dat is a binary file - not typically a video - a .dat is a Windows binary, and i'm going to bet that you have to run that to decode the video CD and access the files themselves (which are likely actual video files)
    – Thomas Ward
    Jan 19, 2015 at 13:40

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Rename .dat file to .mpg. I hope it works. If it doesn't help install Gxine player.

sudo apt-get install gxine

It should work.

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In VLC, you're using the Media -> "Open Disc / Ctrl+D" option, and picking your cd player device?

Trying to open a single file on a video cd usually does not work, VLC has a special way to open vcd's "all at once."

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Maybe you need some extra codecs. Try this :

For i386 install codecs:

sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

For amd64 install codecs:

sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2

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  • Package libdvdcss2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Jan 19, 2015 at 13:10

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