.bin files on Intel Macs?

[jason2811]

Why is it that every .bin file that I download chooses to open in VLC player? For example, I just downloaded AIM which is a .bin file but for whatever reason it saved as aim.bin with the VLC PLayer logo. does this have anything to do with the fact that I have an intel based mac? How can I fix this?

 

[solaris]

Select the .bin file, press command-i and change the "Open with:" application to whatever you like to use instead of VLC.

 

[d wade]

im having the same problem. i downloaded a movie and it is a .bin. i tried changing it to view with quicktime, but still not working.

help please?

 

[Peace]

im having the same problem. i downloaded a movie and it is a .bin. i tried changing it to view with quicktime, but still not working.

help please?

.bin files are binary files and often executable and/or compressed.

Quicktime does not open these type of files..
And I'd recommend against it myself.

 

[d wade]

i tried dropping the .bin file into stuffit decompressor... and it said it was unable to decompress.

wtf is going on?

 

[~Shard~]

.bin/.cue files aren't really mean to be played, although as you said, applications such as VLC can do it if it is in fact a video file. Really though, they're just image files that CD burning software uses to create a CD, and should be treated as such. It's really no different than downloading a .ISO file.

But yes, VLC can play them, and if you installed VLC with the default options, it probably grabbed all the file associations it possibly could, including .bin/.cue along with the standards.

 

[MacMarvin]

.bin movie files are a little different from .bin data files. The movie files are VCDs that come as a .bin/.cue pair. They are actually mpeg-1 videos that are just formatted the way that video cds are. If you get Toast, you can burn these .bin/.cue files straight to CD and watch them on most DVD players.

If you prefer to watch them in quicktime, get a program called VCDgear. This will let you extract the mpeg with the cue2mpg option.

 

[d wade]

.bin movie files are a little different from .bin data files. The movie files are VCDs that come as a .bin/.cue pair. They are actually mpeg-1 videos that are just formatted the way that video cds are. If you get Toast, you can burn these .bin/.cue files straight to CD and watch them on most DVD players.

If you prefer to watch them in quicktime, get a program called VCDgear. This will let you extract the mpeg with the cue2mpg option.

so i will need Toast to burn them to a DVD, and VCDgear to watch them on my computer?