Cracking Sound File

[gwdash]

I have Who Wants to Be a Millionaire both first and second editon. The music is stored in a file called music.dat. Is there any way of extracting the music to a wav file. have tried several things already, any help would be great.

Thanks in advance!

[parksie]

Can you supply the first 10K of the file? I'll try and find the format from the header.

[ksutton]

When Video CDs are created from MPEGs, the mpg is basically renamed from YourFile.mpg to YourFile.dat when it's stored on the CD.

Could this be the case for you? Try renaming the file to music.mpg and see if it will play in any mpeg player...

If it does, you can demux any video any audio and use the mp2 stream to get your audio.

Make sense?

Let me know how it works out....

Kevin

[gwdash]

ksutton:didn't work

Parksie: how do i extract the first 10K from the 10M file!

[parksie]

Use a VB program...just loop through and binary read the first 10000 bytes, and write them into another file. Then send it to me .

[gwdash]

just checking to see if you got my message, if so, how is it comming?

[parksie]

No idea so far. It doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before.

[kovan]

its weird..
cus i download a LOT of movies.
and most of them are .MPEG
just using .dat to hide them or something
change them to .mpeg still works

dont know why it doesnt in you case

[parksie]

Sorry Grant, but I have no idea about that file. I suppose I could try doing a direct comparison (brute force comparison of variable-length sections from the beginning of the .dat file and any other files you find, from the more sources the better)...but I don't think it'll be too successful. It actually looks like a custom format to me, actually, because most audio file types have a specific text header in them.