What are DAT videos? The DAT file format has three common applications: firstly as a general data file, secondly as the Winmail.dat file used in email, and finally for VCD video files. DAT files are used to reference data files, which are normally comma delimited and contain data in ASCII format. The VCD instance of file extension DAT, which is the third category of DAT format, is a video file used to stream video from Video CDs (VCDs) that are normally saved in the MPEG-2 or in MPRG-1 formats containing video data. It is also important that users note that the DAT instance for video CDs can be opened on CD player applications and that the user does not need to open the file manually. How to play VCD (.dat) on Mac? To open the DAT instance of the VCD file category, Mac users require the VCDGear application. VCD Gear is a program designed to allow a user to extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, and more — all in a single step. Then you can use VLC to play the MPEG files from VCD. How to convert DAT to MOV Mac, DAT to MP4 Mac, DAT to AVI Mac? As a matter of fact that when you try to playback, import or edit such MPEG video files extracted from VCD, these may look horrible, with aliasing effects, distortion and images squeezed due to a wrong aspect ratio setup. For this reason, Mac users will need in fact to purchase, albeit at a small price, something that will allow VCD (.dat) to read properly video files such as MP4, MOV, FLV. Then you can also put the VCD (.dat) files to iPod, iPhone, etc or other mac software. Step 1. Install and Run Video Converter for Mac You can download it for free:

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To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want it ). Step 2. Load .dat Videos Insert your VCD (.dat) videos from your Mac. Drag your VCD (.dat) videos to the program. Step 3. Convert VCD (.dat) to MP4, MOV, FLV, AVI, etc. on Mac OS X (Lion included) You can also extract audio from VCD (.dat) to MP3 on Mac with this VCD (.dat) Video Converter for Mac You can know more here: How to edit, crop, trim video files and capture pictures on Mac OS X?