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tom529 – 48 minutes ago »
I have another question. How do I transfer video from the extrernal hdd to pc since I want to put some stuff on dvd. is this possible?
Tom
Thanks for the update. I wonder why there hasn’t be a big fuss about this. It certainly annoyed me just watching MotD.
A super-charged HDR-FOX T2 but for Freesat is what is needed!
Full compatibility with the terrestial foxes is a must – I get annoyed that exported FOXSAT-HDR recordings is not recognised by the T2 without deleting the sidecar files!
Media playback support is a major component nowadays (along with the DLNA stuff mentioned above).
I’ve just confirmed this. I assume that Film4 must be lacking the metadata (or changed it), otherwise we would have spotted this a while back…
Don’t know about the HDR’s limit, but EXT3 has ‘volume size in bytes/2^13’ max files limit. So if you have a 320GB HDD, then the FOXSAT will have a limit of (282*1024^3/2^13) 36,962,304 files.
The only limit the HDR might have is the lack of memory to load in the recordings (making the list). It feels to me like it takes longer the more recordings you have in a folder, not that it is nippy loading the media list…
The layout will be different. I suggested the links to familarise yourself with using GParted to format the disk.
I suspect you just need a single partition for the HD to record on, although I need someone else to confirm as I don’t have an HD box.
Barry or Graham?
Download GParted Live CD and boot up your PC using that and use GParted to format the drive to EXT3.
You can read Barry’s guide to formatting a USB stick to EXT3 here: http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/how-to-format-a-usb-device-to-ext3-noddys-guide
And my three blog posts on using GParted: here (using Ubuntu), here (using Slax) and here (using GParted), for a rough idea of how to format.
But don’t let the above overwhelm you, you just need to start up GParted, select the right hard disk and put a partition and EXT3 filesystem on it!
You might want to check out the Advanced Format Hard Drive post if you are purchasing one of these too.
Lastly! If you want to stick with Windows, you might want to try MiniTool’s Free Partition Manager to format your drive. I’ve had variable success with this so can’t confirm it will work correctly…
Sorry, I’ve only played about with XMBC as the DLNA client, and apart from it taking a while to ‘index’ the recordings, and that HD recordings can not be played… all is working AFAIK.
I’ve still have to get my XBOX 360 hooked up to both HDRs to see if it works well or at all as a DLNA client… (Maybe time for some experiments and blog post…)
Are you trying to playback an HD recording? I don’t think the HDR allows you to do this unless if you have a Humax HD FOX T2 acting as the DLNA client.
On the 9200t downloads on MyHumax Blog of course: http://myhumax.org/blog/?page_id=153
And don’t say hummy on this forum!
Nice to see you getting to grips with Perl and making improvements… Yes, there’s no accounting for dodgy characters and not much error checking in the quick and dirty script.
simple – 7 hours ago »
Code:$title =~ s/…//g;
$title =~ s/:/-/g;
$title =~ s/,/-/g;
$title =~ s/;/-/g;
$title =~ s/?/-/g;
$desc =~ s/…//g;
$desc =~ s/./,/g;
$desc =~ s/?/-/g;
$desc =~ s//+/of/g;
$desc =~ s/[//g;
$desc =~ s/]//g;
$desc =~ s/:/-/g;
$desc =~ s/,/-/g;
$desc =~ s/;/-/g;You can replace all the code above by placing the characters in square brackets, like so:
Code:$title =~ s/[.:+,[]?]/-/g;
$desc =~ s/[.:+,[]?]/-/g;Or safer to only allow normal characters (the ^ at the start means not matching):
Code:$title =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9]/_/g;
$desc =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9]/_/g;I prefer replacing these with an underscore ‘_’. You can also read in an argument to switch between movie and series renaming like so:
Code:$type = $ARGV[0];
if($type eq ‘movie’) { #do movie name processing here };
if($type eq ‘series’) { #do series name processing here };Then you can call up the program in the cmd using:
Code:humax.pl movieOr
Code:humax.pl seriesAlso, see my blog post here: http://myhumax.org/blog/?p=399
Here’s a quick and dirty Perl script that I’ve just knocked up… It just looks in the current directory for .epg files and grabs the episode titles and renames the files with it appended. You should be able to modify it to your own liking as I’ve commented most of what it does.
Code:#look for all epg files in current directory
@epgfiles = glob(“*.epg”);
foreach $file(@epgfiles)
{
#open epg file and get programme title and description
open(IN,”<$file”) or die “Error: cannot open file $file”;
$epg=<IN>;
close(IN);
#get title at specific location (1st entry)
$title=substr($epg,22,49);
$title=~ s/(00+$)//g;
#get synopsis at specific location (1st entry)
$desc=substr($epg,74,254);
$desc=~ s/(00+$)//g;
# grab the first word of title in epg
$title =~ /(w+)/;
print “EPG title: $1n”;
#if filename matches first word of title then we have the correct synopsis
if($file=~ /$1/)
{
# do nothing
print “matched first entry in epgn”;
}
#else look at the 2nd EPG entry
else
{
# check for next epg entry
print “getting second epg entryn”;
$title=substr($epg,354,49);
$title=~ s/(00+$)//g;
$desc=substr($epg,406,254);
$desc=~ s/(00+$)//g;
# print “>$title<n>$desc<n”;
}
# search for episode name between ‘.’ and ‘:’
$desc =~ /s+([w+s*]+):.*/;
print “Episode name: $1n”;
#if episode name exists, rename all files with episode name appended
if($1)
{
@fname=split(/./,$file);
print “renaming $file $fname[0] $1n”;
rename (“$fname[0].epg”,”$fname[0] $1.epg”);
rename (“$fname[0].elu”,”$fname[0] $1.elu”);
rename (“$fname[0].hre”,”$fname[0] $1.hre”);
rename (“$fname[0].ts”,”$fname[0] $1.ts”);
}
else
{
print “no episode namen”;
}
}If you want to purchase a renaming program, I highly recommend Flash Renamer (used to be called FlashIt Renamer), currently only about £16. Help this site by buying it via this link.
You can download a functional trial from the Windows Utilities download section.
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Obviously, it won’t rename the files achieved off the PVR using humaxrw as required above. But it will rename multiple files using rules (capitalise, truncate, search and replace, etc) or using Exif & IPTC tags. So it will be useful for all sorts of renaming, e.g. photos, MP3, etc. Just remember to buy or register it via the purchase links posted here, especially if you download the trial version and decided it is useful…
If you look on the humaxdisk wiki (http://humaxdisk.wikispaces.com/HumaxRW+scripts). There some Perl scripts written to work with humaxrw that I wrote sometime ago.
You can have a look at this and learn a bit of Perl while I find sometime to look at writing the script for what you want to do.
You could also contact xyz321 (PM him on this forum) who wrote humaxrw to see if he can easily add the renaming of recordings using their EPG info, straight into his application…
