Reboot your box then try deleting again. I think that will sort it.

Great stuff Barry, and well done Humax for such a speedy fix !

And for custom firmware users, a new v4.0.8, based on the official 1.00.21 is available now for download from HERE.

See if you can run your original through tsMuxeR GUI first. This often resolves issues.

Hi Gary,

I ran the sample you uploaded through tsMuxeR GUI 1.10.6 before processing with AV2HDR 1.6. It played back perfectly on my HDR. Am I missing something ?

regards

raydon

AV2HDR will only process one audio stream when it remuxes. Which one are you selecting ? It should be the second (AC-3), as the first is additional dialog only.

simoncroft – 4 hours ago  » 

….threw a .VOB at your excellent utility and soon had three files, which I uploaded to the Foxsat’s video folder, as per your instructions. The .TS is identified correctly as MPEG-2, while the other two files show as Unix executables, just like the other .nts/.hmt files from TV recordings.

Alas, when I attempt to view the video, by going into Media with the remote, it is not listed on the TV screen. I have repeated the exercise but still can’t get the file to show. I’m sure I’ve missed a basic point here and I’m guessing you can get me over the final hurdle in one sentence.

Once I’ve got to the point where I can watch video, would it be helpful if I wrote a set of illustrated instructions, aimed at Foxsat users with only a basic knowledge of computers? I am a professional manual writer, so I feel the least I can do is to offer to give something back in return for all the hard work and help you and the Humax user community has given to me.

Hi Simon,

I can indeed get you over this hurdle, but not quite in one sentence. AV2HDR creates files, expecting them to be copied to the hard disk from an attached USB drive (the filename and path is hard coded into the .hmt sidecar file i.e /media/sda1/myrecordingname). If you copied it over in this way it would have been visible in The HDR’s Media List. However you copied it using FTP, or samba, directly into the Video folder /mnt/hd3/Video so it doesn’t match what’s in the .hmt file and consequently the HDR won’t recognise it.

The latest Windows version of AV2HDR has an inbuilt FTP function which corrects the path to wherever you transfer the recording to. Unfortunately, I was unable to implement FTP on the MAC version which runs under mono. All is not lost though. Just locate the recording using the Web Interface’s “Browse Media Files” and select “Rename” from the “Opt+” button alongside it. Then choose “Update” (no need to rename unless you want to) and the path in the .hmt file will be updated to reflect its current location. It will then appear in the HDR’s Media List.

As to your kind offer of an illustrated “dummies guide”, the Web Interface itself has comprehensive documentation built into it. (This documentation is currently under major overhaul). How would you publish any illustrated instruction set you might write so that it always remained current? That’s one of the problems I have with the firmware itself. I have no control over where copies are posted and if they ever get updated, leading to obsolete versions being installed. The main support thread for the custom firmware is on AV Forums in the Freesat section. I suggest you take a look at the information there. There have been “dummies guides” published there in the past for “pre web interface” versions of the bundle, but these were deemed unnecessary with the advent of package installation using the online repository.

regards

raydon

simoncroft – 2 hours ago  » 

I have one last frustrating problem – an alert that says there is not enough free space when I try to upload a video. Although it’s a 1TB drive, I figured it might be partitioned small, so I deleted a bigger video file and tried again. Still no joy. I did upload a jpeg, so it doesn’t seem to be an upload problem as such.

All informed help gratefully received.

Try smb://Foxsat-HDR/Video as your server address instead of the one you are using. Because of the /media folder is mounted on the HDR’s tmpfs file system, it’s size is seen by samba as 61.2MB only. No such restriction applies if you use the /Video share instead. There are also separate shares defined for /Music, /Photos, and /USB. (I really should update the readme.txt file)

BTW. If you upload a video it will not be playable on the HDR directly, although you can stream it to A PC using one of the media servers, Twonky or mediatomb. For it to be playable on the HDR you need two additional sidecar files. These can be created using another of my utilities AV2HDR. You probably need the MAC version (which requires mono to be installed first)

AV2HDR v1.4 for MAC

Yes, as you have found out, the web interface does not display filenames containing non-ascii (i.e. unicode) characters. This is deliberate as non-freesat recordings, which all contain a pair of unicode characters in the filename, were causing problems with the web interface. A solution to that particular problem is being worked on.