
dat file can be force-made to be 'seen' by a player by changing its extension from. dat files can be played back by all media players that support MPEG-1 on most platforms. dat files are placed in the '\MPEGAV' folder. dat track would have a higher resolution (480x576, PAL) at the expense of video duration per disk. It contains a video track encoded with the MPEG-1 codec at a constant bitrate with a resolution of 352x288 (PAL), and an audio track encoded with the 'MPEG-1 Audio Layer II' codec (44 kHz, mono/stereo).

dat file is an MPEG-1 (Motion Picture Experts Group) media container file. Full-length VCD movies were released on 2-3 disks.Ī VCD. VCD provides video quality comparable with the analog tape-based VHS (Video Home System), while SVCD exceeds VHS. Popular in 1990's and eventually yielding to DVD, the legacy (S)VCD standard defines the use of CD's to store digital video data (~74 min/disk).

dat extension is most commonly used to denote Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD) video files.
