I have some backup tapes which should contain WAV audio and MJPEG video that was created on the Panasonic Postbox nonlinear editing suite back in the late '90s. I'm curious to see whether it's possible to extract the original files and play them back for historical/archive purposes.
Using an OpenSUSE Linux system and dd I was able to read back files from the tape. But when I look at the files, I don't see any expected header data, although there's definitely a regular pattern to the start of the files. If I try opening them in VLC it seems to think they're media files but it doesn't play anything back.
It's possible the files are compressed or encoded in some fashion, or I used incorrect settings when I read the files in.
I've attached a dump of the first 30 files on the tape in the hopes that someone may recognize the patterns or have other ideas about what steps I could try.
Thanks!
Using an OpenSUSE Linux system and dd I was able to read back files from the tape. But when I look at the files, I don't see any expected header data, although there's definitely a regular pattern to the start of the files. If I try opening them in VLC it seems to think they're media files but it doesn't play anything back.
It's possible the files are compressed or encoded in some fashion, or I used incorrect settings when I read the files in.
I've attached a dump of the first 30 files on the tape in the hopes that someone may recognize the patterns or have other ideas about what steps I could try.
Thanks!