XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 2/27/2025 3:00 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 27/02/2025 2:29 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >> Daniel70  wrote:   
   >>> On 22/02/2025 2:19 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>>>     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!   
   >>   
   >>    Huh!? "Installed WMPL,"? Wasn't 'Windows Media Player Legacy' already   
   >> on your Windows 11 system? (It was/is on mine.)   
   >>   
   >>    Anyway, have you tried to just right-click the file in File Explorer,   
   >> select Properties and look at the 'Details' tab? For a normal video   
   >> file, File Explorer will mention the Length, Frame width and height,   
   >> Data rate, Total bitrate, Frame rate and Audio specs.   
   >   
   > General Details   
   > vid000.mp4 (name changed as suggested by others)   
   > Type of file:    TS file (.ts)   
   > Open with:    Media Player (Button "Change" which gives option to use   
   Media Player, VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player Legacy, Firefox, Notepad,   
   Word)   
   > Location: On a sub-directory of my USB Drive   
   > Size:    113MB (118,876,060 bytes)   
   > Size on Disk:    113MB (118,882,304 bytes)   
   > Created: Last Friday   
   > Modified:    Last Friday   
   > Accessed:    Yesterday   
   >   
   >>   
   >>    If that does not help, the MediaInfo utility mentioned by Paul is   
   >> probably your best bet.   
      
   If it was Transport Stream, and the "Type of file" field says .ts   
   then I would try an extension of .ts and feed it to VLC.   
      
   https://recoverit.wondershare.com/video-recovery/what-is-ts-file.html   
      
      vid000.ts      # It's actually MPEG2, but who knows if this format has a   
   header or not   
      
   And this makes sense, because MPEG2 is how TV is transmitted over the airwaves,   
   and the beauty of Digital Television design, is the possibility of just   
   receiving   
   the packets and writing them directly to the hard drive in the PVR.   
      
   One thing I don't understand, is why nobody mentions ffplay. But if you have   
   already downloaded VLC, just try that, as that will have most of what   
   FFMPEG has.   
      
   That should be on the order of 59 seconds worth, at a guess.   
      
   *******   
      
   To calibrate on my end, I can try this.   
      
   https://tsduck.io/streams/?name=australia-dttv   
      
      https://tsduck.io/streams/australia-dttv/Nine.ts            # 600KB/sec ,   
   171.83MB , ~ 5 minute download   
      
      Name: Nine.ts   
      Size: 180,179,388 bytes (171 MiB)   
      SHA256: 6CC445C0F04BB400A5B373D66D2FB0D132CC5E8CAE89378734E82B396F7CDA49   
      
   Unfortunately, it looks like cricket :-) But it plays in VLC.   
      
   Sticking that in a hex editor, it does kinda look stream-like. Not a strong   
   sense of a header in there, although you can (eventually) easily recognize   
   there is some structure in there. For example, there are a few characters   
   of Guide Data in the sample, presumably indicating what the next few programs   
   on Nine would be.   
      
   So *IF* you had the available bandwidth, and you were unable to play your   
   vid000.ts file, then you can practice with that Nine.ts sample and see how   
   a (known, unencrypted) Transport Stream plays.   
      
   From what you've shown so far, there's a chance renaming as "vid000.ts"   
   is all that is required for it to work.   
      
      Paul   
      
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