Questions tagged [file-format]
A file format is the way a file is set up. Use this tag for recommendations on tools for managing file formats.
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Software that helps reverse-engineering a file format
I'm working on a legacy software project. The software uses a file format which is not documented. Now, I need to understand that file format, i.e. I'm reverse engineering it.
There are several ...
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Tool for Automatic Removal of `using namespace`
Is there any tool to convert:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
using namespace foo;
using namespace bar;
namespace foo
{
int foo_value() { return 5; }
}
namespace bar
{
const ...
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Software to parse an .ics calendar file
What software can quickly and easily perform the following task:
Separate the events from a single .ics calendar file that contains multiple calendars into separate .ics files, one for each calendar.
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Tool for Cryptographic Message Syntax
I am looking for a software tool (preferably command line, open source and running on Linux) which is able to comprehensively handle the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) standard (formerly known as ...
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FOSS data stack to perform complex custom logic on billions of ordered rows
Is there a purely analytics-focused (i.e. a handful of technial users, no business users or clients) FOSS data stack that would enable me to
ingest several hundred million up to a billion of rows per ...
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Software to create transparent GIFs?
I have to create GIFs with transparent backgrounds for a gig, I know Blender can render transparent videos with the quicktime codec, but do you know a tool to convert them to transparent GIFs? The ...
Eris Manor
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svg 2 dxf conversion
I would like to know where I can find a reliable tool/library for conversion of svg to dxf. In between formats are also allowed as long as the dxf output is an exact replica of the svg. So that means ...
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FOSS Sketch to SVG conversion script
Is there a free and open-source script that would convert Sketch files (Sketch as in the popular Mac-only vector graphics editor) into SVG files?
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Appendable numeric file format?
I'm writing some remote monitoring software in Python 3. I currently gzip CSV data collected over about 8 hours for transmission to the server but I'm looking for something with lower bandwidth ...
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A GUI program to identify file types and fix extensions accordingly
Is there a GUI program that will allow me to determine the true file type of a given set of files and then change their extensions accordingly?
The program must:
Be a GUI
Be able to identify a file'...
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Is there software which detects Youtube/Soundcloud audio quality/volume?
I am in the process of setting up Nightbot for use in a Twitch stream. My goal is to build a "Personal Playlist," which is a music library derived from a combination of Youtube and Soundcloud links. ...
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Android contacts app that properly handles vCard UIDs to prevent duplicates
I am looking for a contacts management application for my Android 8 phone. Requirements:
The app must be able to export all contacts into a vCard 3.0 or vCard 4.0 file on my phone's internal storage.
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Software for editing JPEG files directly? [i.e. block manipulation]
In the case where a JPEG file must be edited, but without leaving the file "apparently" edited (i.e. leaving all metadata, spec-/format-ambiguities, DCT tables, etc., byte-identical to the ...
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JSon editor with schema and references
I'm looking for a Json editor that could assist someone not familiar with json (or any type of code/scripts/data formats) to generate json files following a strict structure. I looked around and found ...
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GROBID-like software for segmenting / TEI conversion of documents other than PDF
GROBID is excellent software for recognizing various human-level objects in scientific papers (converting PDF into XML containing entities like table of contents, authors, titles, sections, chapters, ...
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Software to change container formats of video files (remux), in batch mode
For video transcoding, there a number of programs I use, depending on the situation. Some of the most frequent are
Handbrake, mkv2vob, Multi AVCHD, and VLC
However, for changing container formats, ...
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Archive format that allows for global ("solid") compression, but with the ability to efficiently extract individual files
I want to:
Archive millions of tiny files ...
Each file is about 1-3KB of size
Plain UTF-8 text
Contents largely similar (logfiles)
... into larger archives ...
Say, 1 days worth of files in each ...
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Free ASN.1 Viewer and Editor
I am trying to specify a binary file format and I like to have the code generated for multiple languages, like C++, C# etc. so that file exchange works flawlessly. For that to be successful, the file ...
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Build text subtitles from VobSub (.idb+.sub) files
Suppose you have subtitles for a video in "VobSub" format (a pair of .idx and .sub) files, and you want textual subs (e.g. in .srt format). I remember that, on Windows, you can use a program ...
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Open files in different software based on file signature (not extension) in Windows
Is there any software for opening files with the same extension in different software depending on the file's signature?
For example, a file with extension .pcb and file signature PCB FILE 4 should be ...
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Automatic recognizing of the proprietary files type
I would like have sw/utility/library, what is able to recognize file structures of uknown (proprietary or not so usual) file types.
So I have bunch of files of some proprietary file type (some ...
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Software tool to assist me in documenting a file format
There's this file format which I want to write some documentation for. It's intended for humans, but should be specific enough so that a person could essentially parse the format (if perhaps slowly) ...
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Program to bulk handle files with invalid filenames in Windows
I used Photorec to recover the data from an external HDD that had been partially formatted for a minute or so. The data recovery was successful, but also included over 1000 files that had been ...
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What is TIDX File Format?
I just got a file from my client that has .tidx extension. He want to convert that file into PDF. I don't know which file format is this & how read it. If anyone can help me with this.
