RE: [vdr] HDTV conversion

as far as I understand, playback of HDTV recordings is not possible with a FF card on a standard VDR. As I connect my video beamer to a XP machine (via DVI) I would like to convert the VDR recordings. PVA instrumento seems not to work.

What other (windows) tool could I use?

You have couple of options: 1) use windows directx file splitter filter which understands VDR PES-format - Moonlight MPEG decoder has such, and splitter works without registration

2) use Project X Java software for format conversion, convert to TS

Best regards; Jori