video codec not working properly

[Bill C John]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Every video files in the format DAT is not being played. Video player is not recognizing this format.
Other video players like vlc is not available for ubuntu 8.04. Please help me..............

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 24 21:39:28 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.