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Does your file contains hexa sequence "47 40 00"? often? My guess is no :( Yes, it does! In the one minute recording (43MB) about 50times [in another recording (141MB) about 151times]. The first time at 8768D but it is not regular, the second and third time is at 16B687 ... 247D25 Using c...

Thank you for the clarifications :D The file does not start with TFrc. The required informations (using vlc 1.0.3) are: 1- What are the first bytes of your .rec file? (first 10 bytes in hexadecimal for example) 47 05 79 2d b7 10 1b 87 2a b4 2- does the first 0x47 of you file belongs to sync bytes? H...

I've contacted the Topfield support in order to get some more informations. The first problem is, that I'm no expert concerning video streams and codecs and the second one the 1st level support ... According to my request I got the answer, that I would have to install a proper codec to get vlc playi...

(Un)Official specs for changes are the best option. Other thing might be asking direct support from Topfield, but I am guessing someone has already tried that. Naturally you can hire a coder to figure out and patch out the issue. It is improbably that Topfield will give any user official specs to a...

Using command_line to read your file, you can try this (not tested): vlc file/ts://myrecord.rec Unfortunately the command_line doesn't work for me, too. For removing the the header using an hex editor would imply, that the headers of TF-Recorders always have got a fixed length. I found the regular ...

I have got problems with a TF7700 HCCI (Cabel-Receiver) compare my posting here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=751&p=227095#p227095. If there is anything I can provide to help improving VLC regarding this issue, please let me know.

We now take the ID of the Topfield recording as enough insurance that this actually IS a mpeg-ts file, and it just works. I guess that's the reason why VLC does not play/recognize transport streams recorded with the Topfield TF4000PVR series! I've got a Topfield 7700 HCCI and the .rec files cannot ...