BT Vision: how do I play ".slc" files?

Question

I recently subscribed to BT Vision and very quickly succumbed to temptation and opened it up. Inside I found a 160GB western digital hard drive attached to the ‘motherboard’ by an IDE cable. After attaching the drive to my pc, and some searching around, I found what seemed to be my recordings made from the TV.

I attempted the play the files on the players installed on my computer (Quicktime, Real, Windows media, Nero Showtime and VLC) but only vlc actually opened the file and the pictures and audio were severely garbled, but this at least confirmed that they were the files I was looking for.

Each of the files are exactly 1GB in size and have the file extension “.slc”. After searching at length, I can’t seem to find any codec that will support this format nor any reference to what it actually is. Does anyone know what this file format is and how to play it on PC?

Answer 1

I would not be surprised if those files are regular MPEG files but with some sort of encryption for copy protection.