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zeke – 44 minutes ago »
I just wondered if there’s a way to find out exactly how the videos are when it comes to the HD channels on Freesat.
Not sure I understand your phrase “how the videos are” but if you want information about the format of the video and audio streams in an HD recording then install the freeware program MediaInfo on your PC.
grahamlthompson – 17 hours ago »
athomson – 1 minute ago »
It worked. Thank you Graham.
Strange there is an option to turn it off. The Foxsat-hdr version has a package to restart it automatically (it can occasionly crash).
Not strange at all. Some users may not want web interface access for security reasons so the option to turn off mongoose autostart is available via the web interface or telnet. However, you cannot stop mongoose from the web interface as that would kill the interface you were still actively using. As to the ‘servermon’ restart package, that will only restart mongoose providing that mongoose autostart is enabled, otherwise you’d never be able to turn it off without servermon starting it back up again.
athomson – 1 hour ago »
There is something I did that now seems may have a bearing. On Tuesday one of the last things I did was turn off Mongoose run at boot in the Web IF. Is this possible could it be the cause of my issues?
Andy
Yes, that is your problem. Mongoose is the server that provides the web interface so you have disabled it. To turn it back on open a telnet session to your box and enter service auto mongoose then service start mongoose
kdf – 20 hours ago »
AVD2HDR started playing up in that when I tried to open it gave message “AV2HDR has encountered a problem and needs to close.
I have downloaded various versions and they all give same result.
Help please Ken
Hi Ken, Sounds like you could have a problem with Microsoft .NET Framework. (AV2HDR requires version 3.5) You may need to remove then re-install it to resolve your problem.
Have a look here for some information on how to do this.
Uninstall VLC from your PC and re-install using the latest version (2.0.4) and ensure that activeX (and mozilla if you use firefox) plugins are checked during the install.
So what’s the story on the custom software? I guess unsupported by Humax.
Correct.
How many use it?
See for yourself, have a look HERE.
musictechguy – 20 minutes ago »
I can’t believe that all timers are lost when doing a channel re-tune on the HDR FOX T2. Lots of other PVRs only lose timers on channels which change during this process (e.g. Topfield running MyStuff). I’m a programmer myself and I can’t believe that Humax can’t write a simple bit of code to keep timers on channels which haven’t changed in the re-tune. What sort of people are they employing?
In the main, Korean people I would think, but if you install the custom firmware you need never lose your timers again.
zeke – 1 hour ago » Am I right in thinking that you’ve included NTFS support in your custom firmware? Because devices that would throw up an error message on the stock firmware appear to be readable on the Foxsat now. I back up to an EXT3 partition for now (or just copy the .TS files via network, which seems faster) but if NTFS support is possible and won’t break the two support files which go with videos that would make interoperability easier for me.
If you mean NTFS support for devices connected to the USB ports, then no only FAT32 or EXT3 formatted devices can be read or written to by the HDR. As to network connected devices, by using FTP or samba shares you can copy a recordings .ts .nts and .hmt files to and from NTFS formatted storage no problem.
zeke – 16 hours ago » Also, what’s up with the 37GB already used despite the fact the HDD has only just been formatted?
When you get your drive reinstalled try entering ‘df -h’ from telnet to list the disk partitions.
The difference between ‘Size’ and the sum of ‘Used’ and ‘Available’ is the File System Reserved space. This is created automatically when you create an ext3 partition and is usually around 5% of total. This space is supposed to reduce Linux file system defragmentation, and to allow root user login for maintenance or to allow Linux system logging facility to function properly in case file system running low of free disk space.
It’s not really necessary on the HDR as the operating system is embedded in firmware. If you have v4.0.9 custom firmware installed you can use maintenence mode to unmount the partition and reclaim this space using the tune2fs utility.
umount /dev/hda3 – unmounts the partition
tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 – to list the partition superblock.
File System Reserved space is ‘Block size” multipled by “Reserved block count” in bytes.
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hda3 – set reserved blocks percentage to zero.
or
tune2fs -m 1 /dev/hda3 – to set it to 1%.
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd3 – remount the partition.
df -h – check that the space available has increased.
All is not lost !
Look here for an update.
The problem lies with extraneous entries in the PAT and PMT tables of the video transport stream (.ts) recorded by the HDR. Look here for details of the problem.
mamos22 – 1 hour ago »
Thanks for replying REPASSAC, been away a few days, cannot change hostname or workgroup as need to remove mongoose user access ( me ) but cannot switch off mongoose in service mgmt?
Settings still show hostname and workgroup in red with message “Item(s) in red require a reboot to take effect.”
now I am completely baffled?
You don’t need to turn off user access control to change the workgroup. Just enter a new name in the entry field and click on the ‘Change’ button. The text descriptor saying “Workgroup” next to the entry field is permanently coloured red. It just denotes that any change to that field will require a reboot, as stated by the text below it.
Once you click on the ‘Change’ button a banner bounded by black and yellow stripes will appear at the top of the screen containing a ‘Restart’ button, prompting you to reboot.
And it’s deliberate that you cannot turn off mongoose using ‘Service Management’ since that would kill the very web server you were actively using to access the HDR. That’s like sawing off the branch you are sitting on.
Sorry, but no. The 3D broadcast was tranmitted as two side by side images and only a 3D enabled TV can correctly interleave these images which then must be viewed using the appropriate 3D glasses.
wielanpj – 17 hours ago »
Minor typo in Raydon’s 4.0.8 – The readme refers to 1.00.20, should be 1.00.21?
Well done, and thanks to all concerned.
Phil
Thanks Phil,
Typo now fixed.(was in too much of a hurry yesterday just to get the update released). New link is HERE.
Admins: I can’t edit the link in my earlier post. Can you change this for me please, and update your local site copy also.
Thanks
raydon
