Convert STB to XLS or Editing STB with AutoLisp?

[john.uhden]

I have an assignment at work to modify a bundle of STB files to change all "Black" screenings to "50%" in a number of the files.

Using Google, I found that Cadig supposedly has a converter to Excel, which would probably make my task much easier (vs. manually editing each file), except that all I could find to download was a CTBViewer.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Of course I don't have any idea how to convert an XLS into an STB.  🤔

[Sea-Haven]

Well 1st step is throw the stb at a hex dump program/debugger and peek inside. That may be a hint peek & Poke. I know somewhere I have looked at using VL to get each byte of a file. I could be going down the wrong rabbit hole

About read and write binary file (theswamp.org)

No idea but got to this
(80 73 65 70 73 76 69 86 69 82 83 73 79 78 95 50 46 48 44 83 84 66 86 69 82 49 44 99 111 109 112 114 101 115 115 13 10 112 109 122 108 105 98 99 111 100 101 99 182 195 174 134 142 3 0 0 124 1 0 0 120 156 229 82 187 78 3 49 16 236 253 21 86 122 162 179 47 151 71 225 130 34 84 136 130 64 109 57 119 14 49 114 108 235 206 9 58 80 254 157 217 228 2 2 242 7 20 214 120 198 171 217 217 149 27 219 213 173 75 217 197 160 70 204 212 78 103 179 246 86 155 131 113 158 110 234 238 246 126 181 100 93 109 160 110 76 157 99 171 4 51 41 249 254 66 207 21 245 190 203 113 167 189 11 246 205 186 151 109 214 141 235 146 55 189 222 7 151 59 85 176 228 99 214 93 238 189 253 96 188 192 225 193 236 172 26 61 196 118 103 60 168 143 232 226 222 109 163 127 61 52 63 82 114 94 71 143 190 55 226 114 213 41 122 87 247 138 132 180 237 59 7 31 157 108 208 97 191 91 219 22 189 57 63 184 54 239 255 202 48 182 54 40 81 16 161 240 201 228 108 219 160 59 4 81 197 184 26 228 220 39 171 74 106 96 26 131 36 7 171 191 228 167 199 231 229 80 118 30 253 228 188 113 222 159 199 85 179 18 220 134 102 160 19 176 215 232 194 64 209 226 200 184 248 94 200 138 100 45 174 108 228 244 194 197 255 88 201 241 202 159 58 253 78 250 62 228 39 16 166 64 169 36 92 48 94 2 17 103 66 0 251 138 16 207 83 194 57 227 51 160 100 124 78 0 121 1 68 149 40 8 193 5 217 33 135 32 187 9 9 229 121 88 65 134 21 149 146 227 20 72 142 83 122 33 203 25 144 60 209 65 144 39 130 200 130 246 46 133 18 227 2 245 82 226 130 206 178 4 162 131 156 0 43 212 203 74 145 60 85 114 44 4 230 253 4 56 88 17 

Some more

Playing around this is a pc3 file

[pendean]

Maybe?

This classic seems to still be around

https://www.noliturbare.com/plotprint.php

I've never seen the reverse as a tool though.

[john.uhden]

Thankyou, Monsieur @pendean ,

I have already received a response from them that the STB converter is temporarily out of order or something.  They will be getting back to me when it is ready.

But I don't know yet if there is a way to convert an XLS to an STB. 😕

[john.uhden]

Good job, Alan!

I think those are next years lottery winners.  You just have to unsort them according to Victor Borge's secret decryption formulae.

It's always grnine three hear from you twice in a while five goodness sakes.

[Sea-Haven]

Read this carefully about compression. 

Ran the Unpack option revealed a lot.

How many stb files are we talking about ? You may have changed them all by now ?