DVBrowse
DVBrowse is an application for browsing digital video recorded by certain digital TVs.
Some TV models and brands, such as Polaroid or Technika have the facility to record digital TV to USB storage devices. You will know if you have a suitable model by examining the file structure created on the USB device. If your TV creates the directory structure shown below on your USB device then you probably have a suitable TV.
DVR + README.TXT + RECS + RECSINFO + STORAGE
The TV stores DVB-T (MPEG transport streams) from Freeview in the UK directly onto the USB device, alongside some meta information. I have determined most of the important data from hacking the file format. Some information is still missing so please contact me if you have this file format specification.
Features
- Animated thumbnails of each video
- Open a Finder window with the video selected
- Export meta data to text file
- View TV programme name, description, channel, data recorded, file size
- High DPI display support
Screenshot
Download
| File | Platform | Size | MD5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DVBrowse-2.0.dmg | macOS | 19 MB | 38f7548124070bceaeb16ef761dc9c6e |
| DVBrowse-2.0-x86_64.AppImage | Linux | 31 MB | 3baede6d85ecd33c96642ffbfc5b7c6a |
To install the macOS version, open the dmg file and drag the DVBrowse icon to the applications folder. For the Linux version download the file, rename it to DVBrowse, make it executable using chmod a+x DVBrowse and run.
Changes in Version 2
- Use relative dates for recent recordings
- Support for recordings > 4 GB : files are split into filename.ts, filename.ts1, etc.
- Display current play position for the TV media player
- Show busy indicator while generating thumbnails
- Fixed bug displaying thumbnails incorrectly
Licensing
This software is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).
This project uses FFMPEG libraries under the LGPL.