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Thanks for your suggestion. I found a picture of the tbc-5000's internals and the power supply section seems quite different to me: http://www.satreparatie.nl/digitenne-reparatie/topfield/topfield-tbc5000.html This site actually offers a repair service but I don't really trust it ... I also found so...

Any ideas ?

Hi All, I'm sorry for posting here in English, but you really don't want me to try German :) It has been quite some time since my last post here but i hope you're able to help me. My DVB-T receiver is a Topfield TBC-5000 (Branded for Digitenne in The Netherlands), and so far is has been working perf...

A short update:
I got it working !
The files on my USB stick are now presented as a real filesystem and i can play files directly from there. I need to do some more testing and clean up the code a bit, but as far as i can see it's usable

Is anyone here interested to test it ?

Ok, thanks. In that case i'll keep it as i have now: If the "number of bytes of the last sector" is greater than 0 i substract the number of bytes per sector and add that number, if it's zero i ignore it. That more of less completes my proof-of-concept and now i can start building the real filesyste...

I'm now trying to calculate the file size and i'm not sure about one detail: The directory information give me: 1) Number of clusters 2) Number of unused sectors in the last cluster in bytes 3) Number of used bytes in the last sector The first 2 are pretty straight forward i think: ( the number of c...

Everything works pretty good so far, i got my recordings in separate files, but i have to fine-tune the last cluster a bit. I'm now just copying the complete last cluster which is more than i actually need. After that i'll try to build a FUSE interface so i can access it like a normal filesystem and...

I think the problem is that i have to access the device at byte level, so some clusters start at a position higher than 4GB and are out of range for a 32 bits variable.

Never mind my question, i forgot to use off64_t on one place so it didn't work out. I fixed that and now it works !

The program i found didn't work for me, so i started writing my own :) The first results are there: I can read the superblock, fat and the directory structure. I can ee my recordings and if i copy some sectors to a file mplayer is able play it :) The only problem seems to be that i can't address all...

Ok, thanks for the info. I'm actually looking at the sourcecode of the TF4000 program i found, it searches for the string "TOPFIELD PVR HDD", which is different from my hexdump. I'm not sure if that's the only difference

Is there anything i can search for in the file to recognise the first TS packet ?

I also found this project: http://tffs.sourceforge.net/index.html
It's doing exactly what i was planning to do, but it claims to be compatible with the 4000 series, does that use the same format as my 5000 ?

That indeed makes a lot more sense Firebird ! I've also hexdump'ed my used stick and i was able find the names of all the recordings now :w00t: Also thanks for the link to the PDF, i think that's all info i need. Just one question: I understood that a few mediaplayers (mplayer, vlc) can actually rea...

I've just inserted the topfield-formatted USB stick in my PC, this first appears in dmesg: usb 1-4.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd scsi6 : usb-storage 1-4.3:1.0 scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Switch 1.26 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 sd 6...

[quote="FireBird"]Maybe you can post a hex dump of the first sector of the stick.[/quote]
I'll do that tomorrow. I've looked at it before and it contained "FAT32" in ASCII, but mounting it as a FAT32 partition didn't work. I think it where left-overs of whatever was on the stick before it was formatted with the TopField.

Thanks for all the reply's.

I'm using Linux (Gentoo Linux). I already tried every filesystem Linux supports but it can't read the USB stick. On an other (dutch) forum i found that it uses a propriety filesystem from TopField. Now i'm seaching for information to make a program to read it

Hi All, I see you mostly use the German language over here, but i see some English posts so i hope you'll understand me :) I'm using a TopField TBC-5000 for "KPN Digitenne" DVB-T in The Netherlands and it works quite alright. It records on a USB stick, but i can't read the USB stick on my computer b...