hi, i want to cut my dat file into 2 files cos it is too big for mi to burn it into a CD-R and a CD-R can onli support 700mb and my file is around 750mb. therefore, i am finding software which can cut a dat file. thanks!
Wring. AVSEQ01.DAT is part of a VCD image which can contain 2352*360,000 bytes = 846,720,000 bytes = 807 MB. If you consider that making MPG --> cue/bin will need approx 10-11 MB of extra room, you fit an approx 797 MB mpeg in to a '700 MB CD' (which is a correct number only for data CD purposes (2048*360.000 bytes = about 703 MB). Otherwise, how could you fit 80' music (an uncompressed WAV file is about 10.1 MB per minute)? The way to do: - run VCDGear; - remove all 'headers' from that DAT, which is NOT a 'true movie', selecting 'dat --> mpeg' from the [vcdgear] screen. You'll create a mpg about 2% less than AVSEQ01.DAT. - select, in the [video-cd] screen 'mpeg --> cue/bin'. You'll create a cue/bjn image about 11 MB larger that the mpeg you just created. - burn the cue/bin in a 80' CD-R It will fit perfectly, since the image wil be less than 846,720,000 bytes. Your finally created cue/bin will be about 760 MB all will be well. Ah, remember: all will work provided you extracted, from the VCDGear.zip package the following files and have put them in the \vcdgesr\cdi directoty: Cdi_imag.rtf Cdi_text.fnt Cdi_vcd.app Cdi_vcd.cfg and you checked the 'Add CD-i application' box in the [bold]Video-CD[/bold] screen of [options]. Otherwise, if you have it, you can use VCDEasy which automatically installs everything, supports chapters and makes all 'DAT-> MPG' stuff, under 'Tools' (and, until v1.1.5.2, was even free, if you manage to find it).
But wahy do you want to do that? 1) it's FALSE that an 80' CD-R can contain only 700 MB. If you butn a data CD yes, but if you burn a VCD it can contain almost 800 MB. 2) DAT files aren't movies, but an extracted part of a VCD image. My suggestion: 1) convert to mpeg 2) cut mpeg --> movie_CD1.mpg and movie_CD2.mpg. Womble MPEG-VCR is very good, for this. 3) re-convert back to .DAT, if you really need to do that. No application I know cuts .DAT files. Thousands cut mpegs.
