Hi Zaheer,

in case of converting the DAT-file with VCDGear you will get an AVI-file. AVIs can be viewed within VFP by using the activeX of Windows Media Player.

There are several classes available in the Downloads-Section here at UT.

>Hi Mr. Tom
>Thank you for reply. It is good information that renaining is not the correct way.
>I want to know which is the ActiveX can play VCD file and it will be more helpful if I get some example.
>Regards,
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>>AFAIK, that's a file which is part if a VideoCD. Those files can be found in the MPEGAV-directory. I remember, that I got the running within mplayer.exe just by renaming them from .dat to .mpg but thats not the correct way. Usually you have to
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>a) a ocx control that can play VCD-files
>b) convert the file with a tool like 'VCDGear'