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seasideman – 32 mins ago »
Hi all new to forum, i have a Humax hdr 2000t which i have downloaded recordings onto a usb hard drive format ntfs. Can i re copy this to a FVP model or any other Humax.
Are these HD or SD recordings? The answer depends on the definition used when making the recordings.
GrahamRHK – 3 hours ago »
In fact I have an HD FOX-T2 – using USB disk to record. Is the HD FOX-T2 DTCP compliant – and can one play HD recordings from a HDR on a HD?
Yes you can.
If so then I can only assume that the encryption schemes differ between the older generation boxes and the newer ones as I can play SD files from FVP to HD FOX but not HD as noted elsewhere.
My guess is that it is a difference in the DCTP versions.
GrahamRHK – 37 mins ago »
This seems strange to me. AFAIK both boxes run the same software. Indeed my 5000T thinks it is a 4000T. (Network check for software update). If it works one way, why not the other?
Best guess is that the 5000T doesn’t support DTCP for the DLNA server. Has anybody asked Humax about this to establish whether this is a deliberate change or some sort of bug? Note that you can play SD content from a 5000T on an HDR-FOX T2 but not HD.
Margie – 2 hours ago »
1. We are in Lancashire near Preston so probably the Winter Hill transmitter.
Interesting. The Multiplex on channel 56 is carrying the local multiplex which is broadcast at only 2kW. The main multiplexes are broadcast at 100kW. If you have 65% signal strength on a 2kW transmitter then I think there is a good chance that the problem is that the signal strength is too high for the Humax which is not an uncommon problem.
2. I don’t think water in the wire is a possible cause as the aerial wire goes from the aerial itself into the attic and is connected into an amplifier which sends the signal round the house.
All 5 TV’s on both the ground and first floor below the attic are working and tuning properly.
OK. Does the amplifier have variable gain? If so you might experiment by reducing the gain and see if the Humax will tune properly. Alternatively you could buy a variable attenuator to insert into the aerial feed to the Humax and experiment with reducing the signal strength that way. Something like
Link to ebay would be suitable; Depends if you feel like taking a £4 gamble.
Margie – 1 hour ago »
CH56 754000KHz 8Mhx 8K 1/32 varying between 60-75% with 10% Quality.
Where are you based? What transmitter do you think the box is tuning to?
I can only conclude that the board in the Humax box has now completely failed.
I think it may be worth just checking a few things before coming to that conclusion. Tuner failures are not very common (unless water is coming down the aerial cabling).
batteryman – 9 mins ago »
Hi, coming back to Martin on this one. Both units have software version 1.03.51 which I think is the latest version.
With both units on and the 5000T selected on the tv input, going into the Media section brings up the 4000T in the media list and the files on it are accessible and will play.
Doing this the other way round, the Media section on the 4000T doesn’t show the 5000T in the list so no access to the files.
Thanks; that confirms some previous reports. I suspect if you make an SD recording on the 5000T that will show up and be playable.
Margie – 27 mins ago »
I can only get 5 TV channels via tuner 1 and nothing on tuners 2 and 3.
Please tell us which channels can you receive? What is the signal strength and quality as reported by the Humax on one of those channels (Freeview button > Settings> Channel settings> Signal detection)? You will only see signal strength on tuners 2 and 3 when they are being used to make a recording.
batteryman – 46 mins ago »
Thanks for the reply. The recordings are HD.
Could you confirm that the FVP-5000T will play HD content from the FVP-4000T? Will the FVP-4000T play HD content from the FVP-5000T (my guess is no)?
batteryman – 1 hour ago »
Hi, I’m fairly new to FVP4000T and FVP5000T use having recently got hold of one each for personal use. I got the FVP4000T first and now use the FVP500T. Looking into playing the FVP4000T recordings on the FVP5000T, it seems I can do this over the wifi network – the FVP4000T files can be found and played on the FVP5000T.
Are these HD recordings?
The question is, is there any way of transferring them so that I can empty the FVP4000T and give it to a relative? USB doesn’t work, presumably because of different file types or encoding issues.
What software version is the FVP4000T running? The file types should be the same. HD recordings won’t be decrypted by copy to USB.
triagetrack – 41 mins ago
What is odd is that my TV’s built-in Freeview tuner has excellent signal when connected to the same aerial. Somehow going through the box has done some strange things. Any suggestions?
First thing to check is that the cable feeding into the Humax is OK. Failing that I would try a manual tune using the method set out by Barry at https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/manual-tuning-instructions-1
tallrob007 – 1 day ago »
I’m puzzled why 3 could work but 2 wouldn’t.
The HDR-1800T doesn’t know how to read the proprietary file system used by the 9300T which is why option 2 wouldn’t work.
Also you only want the .ts file as the other files will not be recognised by the HDR-1800T.
crashcris – 11 mins ago »
Did you not see my post #25 above? I’ve got it working, first on fat32 and now NTFS. Everything’s being moved to my new WD HDD.
Sorry I missed it. Glad it worked in the end. From your description it sounds to me as though the hard drive was partitioned with a GPT scheme (which the Humax won’t recognise) and WD helped you to format it with an MBR scheme. Glad you got it working in the end and that you have demonstrated that the WD drive is hardware compatible with the Humax. Do you have an impression of how long it took to copy recordings to the drive with an NTFs format?
Faust – 1 hour ago »
Given it’s around 2 years ago now I’m struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I’m pretty sure it would be NTFS.
I thought an NTFS drive would be OK but the OP couldn’t get it to work.
Faust – 2 hours ago »
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing,
So tell us what format the drive was formatted in: FAT32, NTFS, ext3,..?
