Watch for .dat - they are the 'nasty' MS traces left on your PC which record every (and I mean every) action you have taken. Probably a backdoor for some heavy organisation - don't forget with PCs you are guilty until you prove otherwise. I regularly use CCleaner to zap them.
Did you get the file converted? Although there are lots of ".dat" formats around, the movie one is an MPEG-1 without the header. If you change the file extenstion from ".dat" to ".mpg", there's a chance it'll play. If it does, pop it into Windows Media Encoder and make the WMV.
If it doesn't play, the free VirtualDub will import DAT files. Do a Google search for the home site. After it's loaded, do a 'Save as AVI', then load that file into Windows Media Encoder to make the WMV.
If it's for the site, as noted in today's lesson, FLV is really the perferred format so everybody can view it, not just Windows users.
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My guess is that you dont.
Did you receive them as an email attachment? Scan for virus, save to your hard drive, then rename from .dat to .wmv
Theo, I just entered your question into Google and a whole lot of free conversion packages were offered. Give them a try
Watch for .dat - they are the 'nasty' MS traces left on your PC which record every (and I mean every) action you have taken. Probably a backdoor for some heavy organisation - don't forget with PCs you are guilty until you prove otherwise. I regularly use CCleaner to zap them.
Did you get the file converted? Although there are lots of ".dat" formats around, the movie one is an MPEG-1 without the header. If you change the file extenstion from ".dat" to ".mpg", there's a chance it'll play. If it does, pop it into Windows Media Encoder and make the WMV.
If it doesn't play, the free VirtualDub will import DAT files. Do a Google search for the home site. After it's loaded, do a 'Save as AVI', then load that file into Windows Media Encoder to make the WMV.
If it's for the site, as noted in today's lesson, FLV is really the perferred format so everybody can view it, not just Windows users.
Dr Merc. Am still trying. It plays in Windows media player. I just want to re-edit
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