how to play VCD (*.dat) files in ubuntu

how to play VCD (*.dat) files in ubuntu?

ERROR MESSEGE:-
Totem could not play 'file:///media/shared/avseq01.DAT'.
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.

[praka123]

solve ur problem by downloading these.viable options include totem-xine also.gstreamer-plugins bad,ugly will help u play other codecs

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

video displyed without audio, but now Applications>>sound and video>>movie player not working

sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install totem-xine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Recommended packages:
  totem-xine-firefox-plugin
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  totem totem-gstreamer ubuntu-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  totem-xine
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1065kB of archives.
After unpacking 2621kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe totem-xine 1.4.1-0ubuntu4 [1065kB]
Fetched 1065kB in 3m28s (5113B/s)
(Reading database ... 77840 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ubuntu-desktop ...
Removing totem ...
Removing totem-gstreamer ...
Selecting previously deselected package totem-xine.
(Reading database ... 77714 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking totem-xine (from .../totem-xine_1.4.1-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up totem-xine (1.4.1-0ubuntu4) ...

^what does this mean?

[The Outsider]

"sudo apt-get install totem-xine" this means u installed totem-xine
why did u do that??
rest of the things means
totem-xine was installed and the normal totem movie player & its codecs were removed

souution to this is install the totem back and install all gstream plugins.
do both of the things through synaptic.

thanks, playing dat files fine now. installed gstreamer plugins and totem back by following commands:

sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sariq@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install totem

[beverly]

How do I get rid of Ubuntu on my dual booted vista?I am really new to Ubuntu and I don't know anything. Can somebody give me a step by step guide on how to uninstall Ubuntu that is dual booted with vista?
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[a_rahim]

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[thewisecrab]

Hmm..tyou really should'nt bump a thread for this

But even so, I just deleted the partition in Windows, fixed the mbr and boot.ini file and reformatted the ext3 drive again (after deleting it) to ntfs.