Re: Mushroom Video

There are several options to play this on WMP. Once you have unbundled the iso either to a CD or your hard drive you can:

1. Right click the AVISEQ01.DAT and select 'open with' from the menu and choose WMP as program to play it.
2. Or, Change the file name to a '.avi ' and then WMP will play it - I changed it to mushroom.avi
3. Or, assign .DAT file types to WMP and then double click the .DAT file. This down from file browser by selecting Tools/Folder Options/FIle Types, finding the DAT file type in the list, select 'open with' CHANGE option and assign to WMP. WARNING: if you do this if may affect other programs if they have .DAT file that you open with a double click otherwise no problem. DAT files are currently assigned to Notepad on my system so I changed it.

Actually, the disk is encoded as a VideoCD, a distant precursor to the DVD format. The .dat file is an encoded MPEG1 video, and should be renamed with an MPG extention.

I personally wouldn't install RealPlayer if they paid me. ;-) Media Player Classic is a winner, however, and my primary utility player.

FWIW,

Greg G.