I use vcdxrip for stripping the dat file to an mpeg file. If you're using Windows, there's a free GUI package of the vcdimager tools HERE. Converting the mpeg1 file to mpeg2 would require something ...
How can I reduce the size of a VCD dat file? I had tried converting the file to mpeg but it hardly compressed the file. What are the various file formats which can reduce the size of the dat files ...