On 16/06/2014, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > 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 >> >> .................................................... >>
Hello. Thank you to both the above poster, and to Chris Bannister. The file utility was already installed. I had managed to view the file content, with a video viewer (after having read the responses), and then spent a (long) while getting to applying the file command. After having modified the file name, to eliminate whitespace in the filename, I got the following output from the file command. " :~$ file /media/10C0-C930/20140610_004549_[2_ABC1]_[Slaughterhouse-Five].qs /media/10C0-C930/20140610_004549_[2_ABC1]_[Slaughterhouse-Five].qs: data " The path is of the USB thumb drive. I had tried to copy the file to an external USB HDD, to try to avoid changing the file name on the source, but, trying to copy the file (it is about 3.2GB, I think), the copying broke at 2.2 GB (I was trying to copy it to an HP USB external HDD, formatted NTFS (so that it should cope with a file that size), that had about 450GB free), which hanged the file manager, so I could not remove the partly written file, and, could not perform an orderly system shutdown, as the system progessively failed. So, after dealing with the botched attempt at copying the file, I had to modify its filename, on the source USB thumbdrive, after a bodgy shutdown then a reboot of the system, and, then ran ls and then file, on the file. vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it returns an error "failure to parse stream"). This is applicable to Debian 6. When I had previously tried to view the .qs files, I had used the File Manager, and right clicked on the file names, and the Open with options, had not shown either a default application, or, alternative options. After the responses, in the mailing list message thread, I tried using the "Open with Other Application", which lists all installed applications; trying first, with vlc, which worked, then Movie Player, which does not work. After that action, both of those alternative options, show now by default, when right-clicking on a file name with the .qs extension, via File Manager, so, it appears to be that the File Manager method of dealing with that particular file extension, had simply not been initialised, before I tried applying the method that I have described. I had, due to my ineptitude, assumed that , because no application was shown by default, for processing the filetype, when I previously tried it, none of the installed applications (I had vlc and mplayer, already installed) would be able to process the filetype. That is now resolved, and, once again, thank you for the responses. -- 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/CACX6j8N1oyOm526UkQ70cJp6X11J=jj_lfanf0avuj3+scu...@mail.gmail.com
