Converting .dat to .avi

[evilwizard80011]

does anyone know how to do that?I know you can with virtualdub but it gives me a warning of how big the file will be.

[gs0666]

"I know you can with virtualdub but it gives me a warning of how big the file will be."

Presuming you are creating a compressed .avi...have you set up the codec correctly?

[chickeneater]

AND have you set the audio and video settings to "direct stream copy"?

[djkpsu]

Asuming you are trying to convert dat files from a video CD you should use VCDGear to convert the dat to mpg first. Then convert in VirtualDub.

[borg2]

Dat To avi... virtual Dub

No need to convert first to mpg, just do the following,

1: install divx codec.
2: put audio to full processing in virtualdub, and set the compression to ur liking i.e. mp3.
3: put video to full processing in virtualdub, and set compression to ur liking i.e. divx 5 usually encoding quality of 4000 bitrates is quite small and quite good.
4: save ur file as avi...happy encoding.