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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Samsung SVG audio format (of old voice pens, like SVR M920)
The problem is, that I have got a voice pen recording in *.SVG format.
All I know is that it was recorded long ago and no CD with orginal voice pen software is available to find. Also there is no ...
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Tool to validate the integrity of my data files
I am a little concerned about one of my disk drives and afraid that I might be overwriting good backups of it with corrupt files.
I would like a tool which recursively scans all directories and tests ...
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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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Avro data file gui viewer/editor
while working with binary data format files - Apache Avro it would be handy to have some viewer/editor at least for QA.
I tried protobuf editor which works great for protocol buffers and have some ...
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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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File signature detection tool
Is there a PE (portable executable) signature detection tool which allows commercial use?
Here's what I tried so far:
Exeinfo PE is free for non-commercial use. No information available regarding ...
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Software that explains image file formats
I am trying to learn the internals of image file formats and I wonder whether there is an application that could explain a file byte by byte.
I am thinking of something like Wireshark which actually ...
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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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Checksum utility that integrates into Windows Explorer properties as a tab
I once had a utility that integrated into Windows Explorer's file properties dialog as a tab and displayed some typical checksums, like MD5, SHA1 etc.
Googling for it now, I just find HashTab, which ...
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Determine file type from its content (not trusting the .extension)
I have millions of files like report.bin which are maybe a Word file or maybe a PDF file.
I can not trust the filename extension.
Also, I must distinguish between PDF/A and PDF/X, and other distinct ...
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Program to copy and get sizes for files, filtered by filetype blacklist
Problem: I have a a directory that is several GBs, I need to get the total filesize and copy the files to another folder, filtering out certain file types/extensions.
I'm using Smart Copy Tool, right ...
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Android Image Viewer for Webp and Animated GIFs
Is there an Android application that can view webp and animated GIFs? It would be a plus if it could open .cbz files, or other archive formats, as I like to compress images on my phone. There are ...
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2d game engines that support reading external resources
I've been trying to reimplement some old simple 2D titles in a more modern, crossplatform friendly way, much like Gigalomania reimplements the MegaLoMania framework, loading in the original's graphics ...
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Files recovered but won't open
Let's get straight to the point, long story short:
I opened my pc and a pop up asked if I wanted to delete directly a folder and all its files as it was too big for the trash.
I clicked "No" ...
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Application to manage videos library & show/ sort by video codecs being used?
For Audio, I use Music Bee.
Would love something that can scan videos in specified folders and show a similar data view, and show video codecs of all the videos.
PS: I did scan them in a MB ...
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Non-GPL non-proprietary non-viral-licensed popular video codec?
FFMPEG is under GPL and there might be issues where a GPL-incompatible program uses it in some ways.
Proprietary codecs like DivX however aren't the option because then I cannot manipulate the ...
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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 ...
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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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Looking for Windows-based software for opening a WireShark .dump file w/o WireShark
Apparently there is a way in Ubuntu, but I'm on a Windows box. XP, to be specific. I want to import this data into Access, but can't figure out how to even open the file and Access won't recognize ...
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ODT (LibreOffice) support on iOS
I recently started using LibreOffice Writer instead of Microsoft Word because of the hassle of reinstalling and reactivating Word on a new computer, and it's not too bad. Writer is not a perfect ...
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File format identification
Does anyone know software for File format identification? I don't mean identification by file extension but by analyzing the byte stream. I would be interested in an open-source platform on which to ...
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C/C++ header-only library to read and write image files?
I am looking for a header-only C++ library that allows me to read images in various (common) file formats.
My usage will be conceptually no more complicated than this self-explaining pseudocode:
// ...
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Program that can display real types of files in a directory
I am looking for a program that can show the actual types of files in a directory. The program would have to analyze the headers/contents of the files in the directory in order to determine their ...
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need software for unknown audio format
I extracted some files from an old Dos game for Nitemare 3d and identified them as .VOC audio and .MID, the Windows version has the same midi, and some strange format I can't figure out, importing it ...
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Automatically detecting and carving images from .doc, .docx and spreadsheets
I'm looking for a tool that can extract detect and extract any image format from word documents in both .doc and .docx formats for an automatic document classification use case. It is nice to just ...
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JSON-like format which supports binary data
I search a Python library which supports a JSON-like format which supports binary data.
Required features:
Nested data structures like JSON
Support for binary data (without additional base64 ...
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Line-based 3D modeler (alternative to Sketchup)
I have seen plenty of parametric 3D CAD applications, like freecad and Autodesk, but only one that is line-based (Sketchup) and thus can easily edit STL files. Are there any other line-based 3D ...
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Looking for Software that does "Part Oriented" Text File Encryption and/or Archive File Encryption
I am looking for an existing tool, preferably Open Source, that encrypt different parts of a file (text file or archive like tar), with different keys recursively, etc.
I do not know of an existing ...
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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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Software to import stl file to walk around it in 3D?
I was wondering if there's any sort of software where you can import a .stl file and sort of walk around in it. I have a small house model exported as a .stl file and I kind of want to do just that. ...
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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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Open and visually browse large CSV files [closed]
Which software do you recommend to open and visually browse large (>2.5 GB) CSV files?
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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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.Net library to save 3D geometry to standard 3D formats
I am working on a project where I generate 3D geometry (Triangles, Quads, Lines, Text) and display it in particular colors on a stand-alone windows application using 3D WPF. I want to save this ...
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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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What, preferably open-source, program allows me to full format a secondary HDD on Windows 10 without creating a file system?
I've been using the built-in full format feature on Windows 10
However - after the full format - I feel uneasy when I see files displayed on a HDD in the Windows file Explorer that Windows ...
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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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