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Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference??

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference??
Date 2025-03-02 00:51 -0500
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On Sat, 3/1/2025 9:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:27:15 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
>> I tried it. I named my sample file from the Internet
>>
>>    Nine.mp4
>>
>> and File Explorer says
>>
>>    File Type:  MP4
>>
>> That is because Windows "trusts" the file extension.
>>
>> If I remove the extension entirely, File Explorer says
>>
>>    File Type:  file
>>
>> so it hasn't a clue what it is then.
> 
> I just tried a .ts file I happened to have handy, with the ffprobe command 
> (part of the FFmpeg suite). Changing the extension to .mp4 made no 
> difference, it was still able to show a summary of the streams (audio and 
> video) in the file either way.
> 
> Moral: I wouldn’t trust Microsoft’s attempts at multimedia handling as far 
> as I can throw them. Stick to something tried and true and developed by 
> acknowledged experts, like FFmpeg.
> 

You realize the gentleman is on limited bandwidth, and can't afford
to go crazy with the downloads. That's why we're giving a built-in,
in the machine, a try. The symptoms suggest, perhaps just the
packet payloads are encrypted, and some port of the materials
outside of that can be parsed.

I already made a post with details on the Gyan FFMPEG download
offering, so if the guy wants an FFMPEG.exe, it is available.

You can use ffprobe.exe and dump the interleaved frames of information
into a really big file, for examination. the compressibility of
the file, the entropy, might hint at encryption, but it's going to
be pretty close, because high quality video formats already
"look mostly random".

   nine.ts     180,179,388 bytes
   nine.ts.7z  160,030,696 bytes   88.8% of original, using 7Z Ultra

If the file sample does not compress that well,
it could be because it is encrypted. Only if the Transport Stream
was 100% encrypted, would it compress poorly enough to be noteworthy.
If just the payloads are encrypted, the file will still be compressible.
Just not down to 88.8% .

Dumping the .ts into a hex editor, there weren't a lot of landmarks
in there. The nine.ts sample had no 4CC codes. There was an occasional
burst of padding. And there was a tiny bit of text string suggesting
the short-form Guide Data for "what is up next on this channel".
That is all I could see in the sample I have here.

Our broadcast signals here (8VSB), don't use a lot of multiplexes.
I have one signal I can get on an antenna, which is a multiplex
of four, and the sub-channels would be SD. All the others are HD.
But I don't have a PVR, and I have a tuner card, and my tuner
card uses unencrypted .wtv for packaging (what is recorded to disk).

   Paul

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  Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-16 15:06 +0100
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    Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-18 19:37 +1100
      Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-18 19:43 +1100
      Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-02-18 12:01 +0000
      Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-18 09:41 -0500
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          Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-18 14:51 -0500
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  Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-16 09:59 -0500
  Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-02-16 16:43 +0100
    Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-16 16:21 +0000
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      Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-18 19:56 +1100
        Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-18 11:17 +0000
          Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-21 18:02 +1100
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-26 07:08 -0500
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-27 19:00 +1100
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-27 03:52 -0500
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-27 13:57 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-27 09:53 -0500
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-27 15:31 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-27 13:27 -0500
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-27 19:00 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-27 20:37 -0500
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-28 11:13 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-02 02:36 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-02 00:51 -0500
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-04 23:32 +1100
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-01 22:13 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-03-01 22:27 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-02 00:41 +0000
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-02 01:06 -0500
                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2025-03-03 10:22 -0500
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-28 20:06 +1100
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            Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-20 21:09 +1100
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-21 12:11 +0100
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-01 03:46 +0000
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                Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-02-21 18:36 +0000
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  Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Rick <rick@nospam.com> - 2025-02-16 10:54 -0500
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    Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... What's the difference?? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-02-18 20:17 +1100
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