I am trying to play a video cd with VLC media player which has octet stream and .dat file extension but VLC media player is not able to play individual files from VCD.

I've tried:

 sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

and tried opening the file with videos but of no use how can I play the video in ubuntu.

I can play whole VCD in VLC player but not the "single" dat files separately as it opens in windows media player