Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Dat file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to pcds in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.dat -c "convert to pcds" (how).
Let your AI agent convert VideoCD MPEG to PCDS
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the VideoCD MPEG files in my Downloads folder to PCDS”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.dat -c "convert to pcds"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert VideoCD MPEG to PCDS?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.dat -c "convert to pcds" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991 the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.
