James Pattinson wrote: > I think I am 90% there. Thanks for your patience so far! I now have a > file.ts with 20MB data in it. mplayer won't play it though, should it > be able to with no arguments? > > Playing file.ts. > Cache fill: 5.96% (499712 bytes) TS file format detected. > DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1, > PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0 > NO VIDEO! NO AUDIO! NO SUBS (yet)! > Opened TS demuxer, audio: ffffffff(pid -1), video: ffffffff(pid > -1)...POS=0 > No stream found. > > Thanks > James > > very likely it's encrypted, so unplayable. Try with one of the FTA transponders