XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Daniel70  wrote:   
   [...]   
   > This afternoon, I switched off my PVR (just to be sure!), inserted my   
   > USB drive into the appropriate socket on the PVR's back panel, turned on   
   > the PVR and went looking!!   
   >   
   > When I saw, in the PVR settings, the "Safely remove the USB drive."   
   > setting was still greyed out, I figured I'd done something wrong ... So   
   > PVR off, USB drive out, tried inserting it elsewhere (fail), re-inserted   
   > the USB Drive in the same socket .... and Success!!   
   >   
   > So I copied a program ('QI', British half hour 'Comedy' program) from   
   > the PVR's HD to the USB Drive,   
      
     Good on you! I didn't expect the PVR to allow to copy videos from its   
   HDD to external media, but luckily I was wrong.   
      
   >				 ejected the USB Drive (i.e. 'Safely   
   > remove ....'), booted this Win 11 Desktop, inserted the USB Drive, File   
   > Explorer, double clicked on the big file titled '000' (116MB+) which   
   > started up Media Player ..... only to find out my Win-11 has no MPEG2   
   > codec/whatever ("Checking codec availability. We're checking if we have   
   > a codec for this item."). ;-(   
      
     Others have advised VLC, which is probably you best bet, but Windows   
   11 also has 'Windows Media Player Legacy', so try that, if you haven't   
   already done so. (Just right click the file and select 'Open with'.)   
      
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