I have a Sony RDR-HX925 that records video in various formats that trade space for quality (High Quality, Standard, Long play) etc. I want to take programs I’ve taped off TV and put them onto my computer (and, eventually, my iPod). The first problem is that the computer doesn’t even see anything on the DVD … Read more
I have a .flp file from http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Recorder-Planning-6181199/ which I would like to open. It seems that this is an ActivStudio Flipchart file. How can I open it in linux/ubuntu? Answer UPDATE: Okay, so I’m pretty sure it’s a Activstudio Flipchart presentation file. I did a TrID scan on it and it’s a 81.4% match As … Read more
echo random text > text_file Saves text_file in text format with ASCII encoding. To check the encoding, I do chardetect text_file which tells me that the file is ASCII encoded. Now I have a jpg format file and I do the same chardetect my_image_file but it doesnt’t recognize any encoding in that jpg file. I … Read more
This question already has answers here: Getting around the FAT32 4GB file size limit (16 answers) Closed 3 years ago. Why can’t my USB drive accept a large file, as in bigger than 3.50 gb, when it is formatted in FAT32? My drive is a (16 gb) drive, but when I tried to send an … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 2 years ago. Improve this question I has been trying to reverse-engineer the Microsoft Office file formats and I’ve found they are … Read more
I’m doing some filetype detection stuff and wanted to handle XML detection more robustly. I added support for an optional initial Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark) followed by a < character in either 8-bit or UTF-16 encoding. (This is just an initial test. If this test passes then I proceed to try parsing it as … Read more
I’m writing a script that enforces file formatting. One of the things it does is ensures that all text files end with newline characters. One area which I’m unsure of is with .hdr files. These are images, the Linux file command says they are Radiance HDR image data, but they can be opened with a … Read more
In particular, I’m curious if there’s a file format used to encapsulate an SSID and security information about a wireless network which would allow it to be (in theory) exported from one device and imported to another. It seems both iOS and Android support the same format for encapsulating a WiFi network as a QR … Read more
JPEG is not a file format. The two major formats are JFIF and Exif. Wikipedia page on JFIF says that: JFIF is mutually incompatible with the newer Exchangeable image file format (Exif). The two formats are quite similar though. What causes the incompatibility? Answer If you want to be 100% spec-conformant, JFIF and Exif are … Read more
I’ve some confusion regarding the File Type and File Format. Is it that Document is a File Type and PDF a file format? or Video is a File Type and MP4 is a file format ? Answer file type is the extension of a file. e.g .pdf, .mp4, .exe etc. file format is more of … Read more
