> as far as I understand, playback of HDTV recordings is not > possible with a FF card on a standard VDR. > As I connect my video beamer to a XP machine (via DVI) I > would like to convert the VDR recordings. PVA instrumento > seems not to work. > > What other (windows) tool could I use? You have couple of options: 1) use windows directx file splitter filter which understands VDR PES-format - Moonlight MPEG decoder has such, and splitter works without registration 2) use Project X Java software for format conversion, convert to TS Best regards; Jori