Opening .dat files

What is a .dat file?

According to hoetogeek, a DAT file contains important information for software to handle. The information contained inside a DAT file is usually either plain text or binary, although in rare cases you might encounter them as the actual data of a video file for programs like VCDGear or CyberLink PowerDirector.

Opening a dat file is not easy as it may contain anything, text, picture, videos… Once, I had my videos stored in .dat format in the CD’s, and didnt know how to open them. Later I found out that it can be opened using the windows media player. I was able to do this, as i knew the source, that it was a video. For unknown sources, try the method given in howtogeek.