On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:38:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists > for Debian Linux.
I would probably try "file somefile.qs" to see if it's an identifiable format. If file reports it to be simply "data", then you may have a problem. Next up, try VLC and/or mplayer on the file. Both of these players are quite good at detecting file formats and may give you something useful. > The filetype is from a bodgy digital television that records > (sometimes, when the facility works) to USB media, via some > functionality named PVR. As a final resort, talk to the television manufacturer. > > The television can sometimes find the media, and, sometimes it can't. > It can sometimes record the programs, but, I have a USB thumb drive, > onto which I recorded a couple of movies, but, when I tried to play > one of them, the television could not find them. > > I have previously viewed the contents list of such a thumb drive, > using File Manager, on a Debian 6 system, which shows the video files > as having the extension .qs, , but, on a Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce system, > using the file manager, it shows, in the instance of the last recorded > thumb drive, the video files as being of Type "unknown" (it does list > the filenames, with the extension .qs, and, the file sizes). > > So, I wonder whether an application is yet available for Debian Linux, > that can play (for viewing and hearing) the content of this file type. > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8o0gfru-zzbdpoqvkmsifryo1bfg0xzmwyv8uptmbq...@mail.gmail.com >
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