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Gobbledegook to me too. Must be something strange with your Ubuntu install as it works fine for me. Can you get Nautilus to browse to the file using normal method. ‘Places/Computer’ from the drop down menu. That works for me with standard files, and gives right click rename option. Unfortunately I don’t have a non-freesat recording with the offending characters to try it on. You could logout and log back in as root and see if that makes any difference.
Hi Graham,
You could maybe try using Nautilus with elevated priveleges, ‘sudo nautilus’ fom the command line. See if that gives you the rename option when you right click on the file.
You didn’t say what video formats worked and which didn’t but AFAIK you can’t tweak twonky to change what it will and what wont play. What version of Twonky is on the WD MyBook world ? There is a thread here which discusses something similar to your problem and suggests an update to Twonky. May help you, maybe not.
Looks like someone else has opened Pandoras box.
Check out the thread on hummy.tv here
Sorry to disappoint you Alex, but it’s not that simple. The T2 will only display thumbnails for its own native .ts recordings which have the associated .nts and .hmt files. Even if you could recreate the correct thumbnail format they would still not be displayed. An easy way to prove this is to copy an existing thumbnail file and rename it to one of your imports. It will not be displayed.
Jjays_HaX – 7 minutes ago » Can anyone tell me if I install this software can I actually browse content from my media server from my HDR or am I misunderstanding the point?
The simple answer is you can’t. The HDR will only ‘see’ content that is in the correct format and which has the two additional sidecar files required for playback. However, if you use AV2HDR to create video in the correct format, and if you can connect your media server directly to one of the HDR’s USB ports you should be able to browse and playback the content in that way. You don’t need to install any modded firmware to do this.
super-admin – 1 day ago » Actually, why can’t we just write our own recording scheduler?
You can, and you should! Why do I have to do all the hard work ?
The custom HDR firmware is configured in such a way, as to allow users to add their own applications, complete with auto-install/uninstallers. swedish cook has done just that, and released a housekeeping utility for HDR recordings.
son_t – 2 hours ago »
raydon – 7 hours ago »
son_t – 15 hours ago »
Hey raydon – this sounds like you are starting to think about it…
What I am thinking is simple:
1, make the HD a DLNA client (play recordings off the HDR that you’ve turned into a server)
2, make the HD capable of playing media (avi or ts) from an attached USB drive
Is one more likely than the other (two)?
Sorry son_t, don’t believe either option is possible.
Oh well, thanks for having a look. I wonder if Barry could have a nag at Humax..?
The FOXSAT-HD is a lovely box; USB and LAN capable – just need Humax to work on either of these two areas, and reward those faithfuls who adopted the box from the start!
Yes, I totally agree. I can’t see any reason why they cannot give it PVR functionality via external USB, like they did with the HD Fox T2.
son_t – 15 hours ago »
Hey raydon – this sounds like you are starting to think about it…
What I am thinking is simple:
1, make the HD a DLNA client (play recordings off the HDR that you’ve turned into a server)
2, make the HD capable of playing media (avi or ts) from an attached USB drive
Is one more likely than the other (two)?
Sorry son_t, don’t believe either option is possible.
son_t – 5 days ago » Do you think you could hack the FOXSAT-HD‘s firmware to play recordings off a USB drive or via the net?
@son_t. Just to clarify things. Did you mean ‘make and play recordings’ as in a fully functioning PVR like Humax have done with the HD Fox T2. I don’t think that would be possible. Or did you mean give the Foxsat HD a DLNA server service to stream other non Humax video content off a connected USB drive to a PC or laptop etc. ?
Barry – 20 hours ago »
Try recording it now, all you doubters 😆
Now should I edit the thread title
What would you change it to Barry ?
The fact remains that when I started this thread C4 HD was not recordable, so a problem did exist with either the broadcast or the HDR. Whether you choose to call it a bug or not, is purely acedemic.
I must admit that I said later on in the thread “So it’s definitely a Humax problem, not the broadcasters”. This was based on what I found when I examined the HDD and discovered the empty NTS file. However, events have now proven that it was the broadcast that was the cause of the problem. I am very glad to now retract that statement which I made in good faith at the time, hoping only to inform, and not to knock Humax. I have since compared the transport streams from a recordable and non-recordable broadcast and the only difference I can find is that the non-recordable one contained a lot of additional SEI units containing country code information. This could be what screwed up the HDR’s ability to create a valid NTS file but I doubt we’ll ever find out for certain.
Not encryption Graham. I’ve done some experimenting myself today with some success. Here’s what I posted on DS earlier about this.
Here’s some new information to add to what’s already known about this problem.
I’ve been able to monitor the Video folder on my Foxsat HDR in real time whilst recording channel 4 HD. I have my own custom firmware installed and by using FTP as the monitoring tool I was able to get a dynamic picture of what was happening.
By refreshing the directory listing at 1 second intervals I could see that a recording named Channel 4 HD.ts file was being made which grew with duration. The .hmt file also appeared to be OK in that it’s size was about 4KB. However, and here’s the root of the problem, the .nts file remained at zero bytes for the duration of the recording. Since this is what is read by the HDR in determining duration when the recording ends, this zero length file is obviously being interpreted as a recording of less than 30 seconds and as a result the recording gets deleted.
As an additional test I was able to stream the live buffer file 0.ts to my PC whilst tuned to Channel 4 HD and it played back perfectly.
So it’s definitely a Humax problem, not the broadcasters.
Barry – 1 hour ago »
What ‘not recording’ bug..I know what you are getting at, just hate the term – ‘bug’
The info I have to hand it is not a problem with the HDR. Watch this space.
Edit: I note someone on DS has successfully recorded other DVB S2 streams without issue apparently.
Sorry, I’ll rephrase that, any news on the the not recording error, flaw, failure, or fault that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways thingy ?
son_t – 3 hours ago »
do you think you could hack the FOXSAT-HD‘s firmware to play recordings off a USB drive or via the net?
I’m not sure. The custom firmware on HDR utilises space on the hard disk to store and run custom apps as there is only 1MB of flash rom available for the OS. Even unmodded, the OS uses 960KB of this, so there’s very litle room for additions. Hence the need for the handoff to the HDD. So with no permanent HDD you can see the dilemma. No harm in having a look at a Foxsat HD firmware to see if there’s any way forward. Just need the time.
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Thats a very cryptic nym.
:Sorry, but I will not release details on any public forum on exactly how to build custom firmware. I have made my position clear on this before. Check the thread here on hummy.tv for more information. If people are skilled enough to write and cross compile their own applications for the T2 platform, they should have no problem in achieving root access to the box in the same way I did. A ‘how-to’ guide would only open the door to every script kiddy on the block to attempt to hack the box. Humax are still actively developing firmware for the HDR-Fox T2, and while this is still going on I certainly won’t be giving them any additional problems to contend with.
