Please help asap

[Ivan]

hi
i was about to watch a movie that i just downloaded and
the thing is its in .dat format and it wont play, i need
it to play in media player but i cant because it didnt
change to .avi or .mpeg or something, i dont know what to
do, please help
Ive tried to change the name - movie.avi or movie.mpeg
but that didnt do anythin.
anyone know how to fix this probelm

thank you

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Contact the source of the download and ask them what program
is needed to open and play the file. Also see:

Visit the "Official" Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Windows Media Player FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx

Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ (Excellent Site!)
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Windows Media Player Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| hi
| i was about to watch a movie that i just downloaded and
| the thing is its in .dat format and it wont play, i need
| it to play in media player but i cant because it didnt
| change to .avi or .mpeg or something, i dont know what to
| do, please help
| Ive tried to change the name - movie.avi or movie.mpeg
| but that didnt do anythin.
| anyone know how to fix this probelm
|
| thank you

 

[Godpapa]

hi
i was about to watch a movie that i just downloaded and
the thing is its in .dat format and it wont play, i need
it to play in media player but i cant because it didnt
change to .avi or .mpeg or something, i dont know what to
do, please help
Ive tried to change the name - movie.avi or movie.mpeg
but that didnt do anythin.
anyone know how to fix this probelm

thank you

Right click on the movie file and click on Open With> Windows Media
Player. If WMP is not already on the Open With Menu choose the program
from the list which is provided. .dat works on my system that way only.
I have set all .dat files to be opened with WMP. So the clicking has to
be done once.

 

[Guest]

You may need to download additional Codecs or plugins to run DAT files which are synonymous with MPEG and MPG files.