software from VCD to CD

[haitang]

I have a karaoke VCD disc that is for home DVD player used, now I like to copy the song to make it as a CD that I can listen in car stereo. All the songs in that vcd are in .DAT file, what software do I need to convert from .dat to .wav? I had Roxio easy cd 5.0. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Actually, I think you can just copy the x.dat file to your hard drive, rename it as x.wav and give it a try. I know it works for video (.dat to .mpg) on VCDs so it might work for audio too. Let me know if it works.

 

[haitang]

I tried that, it didn't work out, it can change from .dat to .wav in harddrive, but when I add song at the Easy cd, it won't accepted.

 

[Guest]

Okay but when you rename it from .dat to .wav, can you PLAY it in a program like media player or winamp? If you can't play it that way, then yes the formats are different and you'll need some sort of converter program and I'm sorry but I don't know of one off hand.

If it does play, then here is my explanation - the .dat file is a .wav minus the header file (just the raw PCM audio data). Easy CD Creator looks for and can't find the header file so it assumes it isn't really .wav file. Of course the irony here is that if it does find the header and accepts it as a .wav file, it then removes the header during the burn process and just writes out the raw PCM audio data which is what CD audio actually is. The solution I propose is to play the file in winamp using the Disk Writer plug-in (Options->Preferences->Plug-ins->Output->Nullsoft Disk Writer). You won't hear the sound, but it will create a true .wav file (header and all) from the input audio. Might be a crude way to add a header but it just might do the trick.

 

[haitang]

Yes, I can play it in media play, just can't add song in the Easy cd. It hanged when I add song and I had to Ctrl/Alt/delete to close the program(it showed NOT Responsed).

I don't get what heater file is? Any solution?

 

[Guest]

The header portion of a file are the bytes at the beginning of the file which identify it and explain for format of the rest of the data. For instance, with a .wav file, the header would explain that it is PCM formated audio encoded at a certain sampling rate and whether or not it is stereo. Sometimes the header file is not important which is true for .wav files. As you've seen, Media Player can figure it out but Easy CD Creator is stupid. Follow my directions in my previous post. It should result in adding a header file to your renamed .dat.