There is no application for Ubuntu with a genuine support for Samsung PVR recordings. PVR recordings from a Samsung TV are encrypted to meet DRM. In order to view them on a device other than the very TV on which they were recorded we would have to decrypt them first. Doing so may be illegal depending on copyright laws in your country. Some older Samsung TVs stored the encryption key together with the video files on an attached USB drive but this is not the case in newer series. For these we need root access to the TV firmware in order to read the encryption key generated from the TV before we can decrypt our recordings. You will find some tools including tools for Linux/Ubuntu from the modified firmware.

DeSTRoi - Decrypt Samsung TV Recordings is a free program that lets you download movie files directly from your TV by FTP and decrypt them. The program has support for all Samsung video formats such as SRF and TS. We analyzed Destroi-decrypt-samsung-tv-recordings.updatestar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 409 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page.

You may be able to adapt them to your settings better than me because my TV is not supported without also replacing it's firmware (which I did not want to do). Not all series of Samsung TVs are supported however.

Did you try to play them with Smplayer? Smplayer can play this type of videos but you cannot rewind or fast forward. You can only watch it. I run Linux Mint 17 and all multimedia files play normally except.ts files which play in Smplayer only. I have installed the following packages ubuntu-restricted-extras - Smplayer which are not installed by default in Linux Mint 17. I hope this can help. Edited from this point:) I do a work around to solve this issue I use WinFF app to convert the.ts file to any other file that play normally which in my case I prefer the following settings in winff Convert to: ( I choose DVD ) Preset ( I select PAL DVD fast LQ) Preset settings can change according to your needs of course:) Cheers.

Hi all, this is my first post and I'm not a youngster, and not too good with technical stuff.so please be patient if I'm not explaining properly. I am trying to learn if there is a way to transfer programs I've recorded (saved) to an external hard drive attached to a Samsung Smart TV. I now have a Panasonic DMR-BWT700EB.which is great, and have no problem transferring programs to DVD on this machine, but I have many programs that I would like to transfer to DVD from the hard drive connected to my Samsung TV if it is possible. If anyone knows of any solutions or workarounds that I might be able to use, it would be appreciated.

I have tried many online searches on the subject, but not been able to find anything as a real solution. Cheers NB my external hard drive connected to my TV is a 1GB USB-3 drive, and the TV formatted it on connecting to the TV, I assume it formatted it to FAT32. I haven't tried connecting the hard drive to my PC in case it gets corrupted and I lose the ability to view the content/programs stored on the drive.

According to several UK forum threads on the subject, you cannot easily transfer recordings made by the Samsung TV to a PC or make DVDs/BDs from them. The Samsung TV formats its connected PVR HDD using a variation of Linux file system, then encrypts the files so that only the TV that made them can play them.

Oho basti dorasani mp3 player. See the sample discussion in this typical thread: If you were a technical 'geek,' you could look into the procedures some people use to transfer files from their DVD recorder HDDs directly to their PCs. The issues are similar to the Samsung TV PVR: Linux file system, and (sometimes) encrypted files. But this isn't an intuitive task, it can involve a lot of effort and risk, and you describe yourself as not being especially 'geeky' in the first place: so you probably shouldn't proceed any further. Consider the Samsung recordings to be 'trapped' in their USB HDD case: if you want to keep them, just disconnect the drive and buy a new one to fill up with new recordings. Going forward, use your Panasonic instead when you want to record something you plan to keep (since it has the built-in disc burning function).