Convert DAT Files to Google Video

Click the upper Browse... button for the .DAT file which you'd like to convert. Browse for the DAT files in the opened Windows Explorer Window and click Open button next to the filename of the Windows Explorer Window to load the DAT files for DAT files to Google Video Converter. Make sure before clicking you have selected the DAT files that you want to convert. You may also click + button or use drag-and-drop to add multiple DAT files for conversion.

DAT is used to refer to a certain tape backup format. But in audio/video terminology it normally refers to files that VideoCD has in its SEGMENT or MPEGAV directiories. These DAT files are basically MPEG-1 files with an additional information and certain specific file structure -- they are NOT real MPEG-1 files and you need to convert them back to real MPEG-1 files in order to edit them even that most of the software players treat them as regular MPEG-1 files.

Click To AVI placed along on the top of the interface, which means you'd like to convert from DAT files to Google Video.

Click the drop-down list next to AVI profile, you can select a preset profile for the output Google Video. Click Edit... button to set more details, if you want to customize the parameters of your selected profile.

Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video search engine from Google. Google Video allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Video without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. Some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.

Hit the big button of Convert on the right bottom, when you have finished the steps above. Then the DAT files to Google Video Converter will start to convert DAT files to Google Video.

And the processing bar will show you how fast and where the process of converting DAT files to Google Video format is experiencing. Now we show you all steps about how to convert DAT files to Google Video.