The best way to find out is probably to download a copy of a tool like MPEG Streamclip from This can open MPEG transport and program streams, and one of the menu options is to save the file with a.rec header, which is compatible with the Topfield PVRs. It won't be as complete a header as something recorded on the boxes, obviously, since it won't have the details of the programme, channel, and so on, but it will still play and should give you some idea of the format and how easy the conversion is. Streamclip works on Windows and Mac; for other systems, Project X will do the trick. The DJ wrote: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! At least the first bytes of the header are different.

Converting Topfield PVR Recordings. Once you’ve got the recordings on your PC they will be in Topfield’s.rec. My traditional way of converting these files. Convert.rec files easily. Topfield 5800 250GB. The thing is that I wanted to convert the REC files to AVI to be played. Nov 28, 2006 A History, Down loaded from Topfield STB in REC file. Demuxed with projectX (latest verision) and got Bobby Flynn.m2v (Video.

Not starting with 'TFrc5000' as for the 50xx models, but with some strange (but fixed?) numbers. Naked And Afraid S04 Bares All there. Anyhow, maybe it's a better idea to extend the scan buffer to more than the mentioned 600bytes, since after the header part (3 packets?) a normal MPEG-TS is starting, AFAIK.? Would be nice if this small issue could be fixed somehow in future releases.

Artificial Academy Character Database. I uploaded a small sample recording to. The DJ wrote: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 be played with VLC 1.0.3 as well (mplayer works fine). I always get the following error: main error: option sub-original-fps does not exist main error: no suitable demux module for `/subtitle://C: Video. Sai Baba Star Plus Tv Serial. idx' In another thread I've seen that the problem seems to be a'different header in each receiver model'.