Video file editor?

[buccaneere]

What's the most capable one you know of?

I offloaded my DVR hard disk's recordings, and 90% of them play in Media Player Classic, including premium channel recordings. Still there's about 200 that will not play in ANY media players, of the 2 dozen or so that I've tried. So I want to break them down in an editor program, to see if it's a codec issue, corruption, decryption, or other issue...

Ideas?

[Rudge]

Of the ones that won't play,, what are the file extensions? You might get some help by providing that info.

[buccaneere]

Hi Rudge...

The files are .tsp; some MPEG2 derivation of Transport Stream Protocol...

I'm finding in some remote forums/websites that they possibly use Nagravision3 scrambling/encryption/encoding...  , so this probably ain't gonna' happen...

One site had a virus/bug in it, and it tried to load a script, but Linux just laughed at it!

[Rudge]

Hi Rudge...

The files are .tsp; some MPEG2 derivation of Transport Stream Protocol...

I'm finding in some remote forums/websites that they possibly use Nagravision3 scrambling/encryption/encoding...  , so this probably ain't gonna' happen...

One site had a virus/bug in it, and it tried to load a script, but Linux just laughed at it!

Are the .tsp files the only ones that wont play? And,, are they all .tsp files?  Will any of the .tsp files play?

[buccaneere]

Are the .tsp files the only ones that wont play? And,, are they all .tsp files?  Will any of the .tsp files play?

All are .tsp format.

I offloaded my DVR hard disk's recordings, and 90% of them play...

[plambi]

buccaneere, may be you talked about .TS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream
If so, you can try avidemux from Synaptic.

[buccaneere]

buccaneere, may be you talked about .TS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream
If so, you can try avidemux from Synaptic.

The files are .tsp; some MPEG2 derivation of Transport Stream Protocol...

They're similar, but not the same. And in computers, there's really no such thing is 'similar'.

Turns out it's an encryption gig, called Nagravision3  . Gonna' be a while for that crack is 'released'...

[plambi]

Yep, it's really an encryption system, according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagravision
I surrender, wish you luck with this anomaly 

[Jonesy]

There used to be some windows software for Nagra (Syster) back in the 90's using predictive cut and rotate for decryption
of the French and Dutch Nagra broadcasts. The video was not that difficult and the audio was easier since it only needed to reconstruct the missing audio sideband and re-mix it.
.
Not sure how different it is now since it's been so long since I was involved in the PIC analog stuff.

[TerryH]

I looked into adding an external HDD a couple of years ago, but as I read it's encrypted I didn't bother.  I may have to try it now to see what it will do.