XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: daniel47@eternal-september.org
On 26/02/2025 4:04 pm, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 22/02/2025 2:19 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> 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'.)
>>
> Installed WMPL, pointed to the video on the USB stick ....
> interestingly, WMPL listed the file as "000 0 seconds Unrated"!
>
> Zweo Seconds?? No wonder it doesn't play!
Woops!! Should have read "Zero Seconds?? No wonder it doesn't play!"
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