[MPlayer-users] possible bug with .dat files

[charlie]

what about "mplayer -vcd 1" ?

Marc.Duerner at student.shu.ac.uk wrote:

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>Hi, 
>I have a problems playing a vcd. Usually I open the .dat file with mplayer 
>and it works fine, but there is one particular movie, where it doesn't work 
>even though it is a normal vcd. It starts playing it but the picture is 
>scrambled and mostly green. I think the problem is that the .dat file has no 
>header. So my file manager recognises it as a textfile, whereas normal .dat 
>files are of unknown type.
>
>regards,
>Marc
>
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