No handling of Samsung SmarTVs TV recorded files for video+audio (filename.SRF) & program details (filename.INF) formats

On Samsung SmarTVs models later than 2011 (i.e. UE40F7000LED model) TV shows can be recorded on USB connected drives that are formatted with ext4 filesystem. Thanks to a free 3rd party tool (Paragon ExtFS for Windows) such recorded media files consisting of both video+audio (filename.SRF) & TV program details (filename.INF) can be exported to PCs with at least Windows 7. But as of now, at least up to v2.2.4, VLC is unable to properly recognize recorded media format and so does not play any video+audio content (only from filename.SRF). So when a filename.SRF (i.e. 20160205220003.srf) is dragged on VLC v2.2.4 (x64) window on a Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) VLC indeed only starts some analysis (as resulting from verbosity 2 collected log I saved) that only complete without playing anything (and at least VLC does not crash at all).

Compressed verbosity 2 log file

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Duration apparently shown in VLC v2.2.4 playlist even if no video is played for a Samsung SmarTV saved .SRF file

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VLC v2.2.4 identified modules tree shown after saving verbosity 2 log for Samsung SmarTV saved .SRF file

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Samsung SmarTV recorded TV content saved files (.SRF+.INF)

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Likely caused by encrypted content, and then unfixable.

In any case, MissingSample.

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Sorry for reopening this ticket today (I also tried some hours ago but failed because of receiving error message "Environment not found", just same error that I received after 4 failed attempts to create another new ticket referencing this one).

Hello courmish (or anyone else),

so far I've been unsuccessful to upload both files of my Samsung SmarTV TV recorded sample (20160205220003.srf and 20160205220003.inf) using http://streams.videolan.org/upload/ . This was probably dued to their total size even after 7-zip (v9.20) compressing resulting file (2,65 GB) and even after splitting it in 80MB chunks (I'm about to test also with 64MB and 32MB chunks). So could you (or anyone else) please be so kind to tell me if there's another easy way to provide you same files ?

Thanks in advance for comprehension and help Best Regards R.

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WeTransfer or anything else.

https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/44572-editing-recordings-samsung-smart-tv-srf-format.html

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This is 20160205220003.inf file companion of 20160205220003.srf TV recorded sample. It is partially textual and contains some descriptive information about TV recorded video show. In this specific example textual part contains also DTV description (in Italian) of broadcasted show.

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Many thanks indeed to jb and fcartegnie for additional help and clarification provided about .SRF (Sony Raw Format). At this point I obviously agree to avoid providing you my main .SRF TV recorded sample. But anyway just for your future reference I'll only just be providing you 20160205220003.inf contents only. Simply because its main content is textual (even if Unicode or DBCS based) and not crypted and maybe in future even by simply checking that its available and being it able to read some part of its contents anyway could just be useful even just to simply partially inform VLC user some more about its failing attempt to try to access a DRM crypted video content.

Best Regards R.