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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BiggieCheese1500 on 2025-06-15 04:21:04.

Hello all, I've been at this for quite some time now and I'm so close.

Basically I have a Bell 9242 PVR and I'm trying to get the shows off of it. I managed to use a program called Autopsy to scour the HDD and it spat out thousands of .ts files (mpeg2). those files do play in VLC however they are in 2-20 second fragments and I have no idea what order they go in. I've tried comparing the file names, using the metadata of the files (the subtitle start and end time) to order them correctly but some are just corrupted and it will take far too long for me to manually process them, heck I even wrote a program to order them correctly- I think I'm on the wrong track.

I've searched far and wide on the internet. I've tried things like PVRExplorer, And I even tried mounting the drive on Linux. The first partition mounts fine and it contains things like debug logs and raw text data. and the other partitions are the really big ones and they refuse to mount. All I know is that it is a Linux based system and the videos are most likely MP2 or MP4 format. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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