diff --git a/parse_vlc_dump.rb b/parse_vlc_dump.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# encoding: utf-8
+# ruby: 1.9
+
+raise "provide dump file as argument" unless ARGV.size==1
+raise "#{ARGV[0]} is not a file" unless File.file? ARGV[0]
+
+dump = IO.read(ARGV[0]) # read data
+dump.gsub!(/[^[[:xdigit:]]]/,"") # remove non hex (e.g. newline)
+dump.gsub!(/(1b){15,}00/,"sync\n") # replace sync
+dump.gsub!(/([[:xdigit:]]{30})/,"\\1\n") # format lines
+
+dump.each_line do |line|
+  line.chomp!
+  if (line[2,2]=="01") then # only look for set coloe lines
+    channel = line[0,2].to_i(16)
+    puts "color for LED #{channel.to_s.rjust(2,'0')}: #{line[8,6]}"
+  else
+    puts line
+  end
+end