[mythtv-users] FW: What format are myth's .muv files
Christian Hack
christianh at pdd.edmi.com.au
Fri Jan 16 02:08:52 EST 2004
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of stan
> Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 12:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: What format are myth's .muv files
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:16:41PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > > What is the "file command"?
> >
> > file is a little utility that will tell you information about common
> > file types (usually based on file header info)... for example:
> >
> > file some.gif
> > some.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 289 x 90
> >
> > file uppercase.pl
> > uppercase.pl: a /usr/bin/perl -w script text executable
> >
> > Useful for some stuff, but it's obviously only as smart as its
> > programmers make it, and apparently doesn't recognize the
> nuv header:
> >
> > file 1013_20031123230200_20031124000500.nuv
> > 1013_20031123230200_20031124000500.nuv: data
> >
> Good summary.
>
> However, file is (or can be) smarter than it's programers
> made it. It uses
> several user editable files to determine the file type. Addidn a "new"
> filetype is actually quite simple.
>
> The man page for the version I am looking at (FreeBSD) does
> not reference
> GNU, but I believe there is a GNU version. If so, it might
> make sense to
> contribute identifyng information on these files to the GNU
> project, so
> that it can recognize them.
>
Interesting. I have used Linux for quite a while as firewall (over 4
years) and recently for MythTV (about a year) and have never seen or
heard file mentioned before.
What confused me was the original posts wording talking about a file
command.
You learn something every day.
CH
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