.DAT video file?

I’m trying to get some video out of a website, so I waited it to finish streaming and checked the temporaries.
It brought some “.DAT” file, which I don’t know what it is.
Inside the temporaries folder itself it wrote .WMV, but it still showed as a .DAT file and there’s no playback from different players as well anyway.
What is this and how can I get a normal video from this?
I prefer not to screen-capture the video from the website as it usually yields bad resulsts.
Answer #1
dat files (that are video files) are mostly Video CD files
they are in mpeg format and should play with most players
Answer #2
yup he is correct.vlc will play it straight away.
try it!!!
Answer #3
Something is strange with this thing.
I tried several stuff from the internet. First, some said just to play it with Media Player, which obviously didn’t work.
Something else said to extract it with “ISOBuster” – Didn’t seem to work.
Another one said to open it with some converter I forgot its name (it has a download thread here with 500 comments) – It said that it doesn’t contain video data or something like that.
Eventually, I tried to record it with Camtasia, but it doesn’t record anything. When it shows the recording preview it only results in a “hole” that the background can be seen through.
The file is obviously this but I can’t seem to get it to work, and when it can’t even record it while I obviously see it, it’s very strange.
Answer #4
Have you tried it with vlc though?
Answer #5
I just tried and it doesn’t work.
And it’s not like it was specifically about this file (I guess), because the player doesn’t even have a .DAT in it’s browser so it’s most likely not intended to play these files.
What’s up with this stupid thing? I just need a short video, it should be really easy.
Answer #6
Try removing the .DAT and rename it to .WMV