Problem with playing VCDs :(

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try www.videolan.org
try using a DVD player

"Raghav" <raghav_arian@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
> I have a very peculiar problem... I have a 52x SAMSUN CD ROM SC-152C
> (Don't know if the model is all that important) which works fine
> except for one bugging problem -- It doesn't play VCDs... I have tried
> many things like reinstalling Video Codecs, Windows Media Player,
> Direct X, etc. All other types of audio, video and data files are
> accessed without any problem, but if I try to open a VCD (.dat file),
> the media player or any other player or editing software to which I'm
> trying to load the .dat just hangs up. A couple of months ago, I used
> to get a message saying "Cannot play this file... File may be corrupt"
> or something like that... but now it just hangs. If I try to copy the
> .dat to my hard-disk first, it says "Cannot read from source file or
> disk"... Now, I've tried various things and feel I'm at a dead end...
> Can any of the experts please help me?
>
> Thanks in ton for ur advice
>
> -Raghav