DAT to MPEG

[Sakuya]

I have a VCD which I want to extract the DAT files and remove any information/headers and have a perfectly fine MPEG on my hard drive. I have tried Isobuster and the output has lots of colored, blocky glitches as well as a squeaky sound every few seconds. I have tried VCDGear and the output MPEG file could not be played by Windows Media Player 6.4. It said:

ClassFactory cannot supply requested class

So I used TMPGENc to de-multiplex that MPEG (made using VCDGear) and I get an MP2 and M1V file. The M1V can be opened in Windows Media Player 6.4 however, it is only the first two seconds of the entire film (plus blocky glitches). Please help! How do I get the MPEG file out without all the glitches? I know it worked last time but I forgot what tool I used. :eek:

[McoreD]

For DAT to MPEG, Have you VCD Gear?

"Put your first VCD into your CD-Rom drive and choose the 'dat -> mpeg' option from the drop down list (A); then press load (B). Make sure 'Fix MPEG Errors' is ticked but uncheck the 'Remove CD-i MPEG Bumper'. Leave the rest default. Bingo! You have and mpeg file!"

Link: http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/vcd-2-divx.htm
Download: http://www.digital-digest.net/downloads/files/encode/vcdgear20.zip

[Sakuya]

Yes, as I have said above, I have used VCDGear to produce a small, non-working MPG. I did check "Fix Errors." Please read my post entirely before replying. Thanks.

[McoreD]

As far as I could remember you didn't mention you tried VCDGear before. Now I see you have edited your original post after I have replied. ;)

When it says: ClassFactory cannot supply requested class (Error=80040111)
Does it also say:
Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200)?

If so, I think you may need to reinstall your MPEG2 decoder.

[Sakuya]

I have only editted my first post because I put MP3 instead of MP2. I did not edit anything else. :rolleyes: No, it only says ClassFactory. And there's nothing wrong with my MPEG2 decoder since I can player M2V files fine.

Is it because I am ripping from a CD-R? It's not the original VCD. I copied the original VCD onto CD-R since it was a rental. And now I'm extracting from the CD-R and upgrading to DVD.

[McoreD]

If you can play the VCD fine from your CDR it should be okay. However..

Is the output MPEG file size close to the input DAT file size?
When you say: it is only the first two seconds of the entire film; is that all it plays?

Seems like VCDGear cannot read the DAT from the CD properly?
Try copying the DAT file to your hard drive first and then use VCDGear again. Have you already tried that? :)

[Sakuya]

As I said, when I use Isobuster, it extracts an entire song (it's a karaoke where each song is a DAT file) with lots of glitches. Using VCDGear, it extracts only the first 2 seconds of the first song. When I copied the DAT onto my hard drive and had VCDGear fix the errors, the result is the same as extracting it with Isobuster. :(

In the past, I have used Isobuster to extract video from official VCDs and that worked fine, no problem.

[dani82]

that's a rule violation (#6), even dough it's not mention, it's imply

[Sakuya]

I was just adding more information to help solve my problem since official VCDs had no problem while my CD-R has problems. Also, I was merely backing up the VCD for my personal entertainment since it was a rental. :(

[Trahald]

You can only make fair-use backups of cds/vcds/dvds you own. thread closed