- This topic has 20 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 3 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Newbie! I have RTFM and also checked through the forum. I can’t find how to create folders so I can group my recordings, rather than scroll through every one, which could take a while. I don’t want to save them to external storage. Thanks in anticipation
No.
That’s a big (and surprising)shortcoming. So you can have, for example, a hundred recordings in one long list that you have to scroll through when you want to view a film you recorded a couple of months ago? Is that it, or am I missing something?
Series recordings will store themselves in a “folder”, but you cant do it for individual stuff. I have several shows and films on an external HDD an various folders, that works for me.
clairehen – 8 hours ago »
That’s a big (and surprising)shortcoming. So you can have, for example, a hundred recordings in one long list that you have to scroll through when you want to view a film you recorded a couple of months ago? Is that it, or am I missing something?
You could use the search function, it’s not perfect but will find recordings you have.
clairehen – 11 hours ago »
That’s a big (and surprising)shortcoming. So you can have, for example, a hundred recordings in one long list that you have to scroll through when you want to view a film you recorded a couple of months ago? Is that it, or am I missing something?
No consolation but it’s exactly the same on the Humax Freesat boxes, 1000S/1010S/1100S. As stated, series episodes go into a folder, but sometimes the broadcaster does not get that right and you get some episodes shown singly. There is no method of organising your recordings other than taking them off to external storage.
Claire raises a very good point.
On my old Sony recorder that has sadly died, the facility to create folders was available and very useful.
It is good that series recordings are put to folders, but I do like to group other recordings – films for instance among other things.
If Humax cannot or will not provide a means direct from the box, maybe they could at least provide a means of copying empty folders from an external usb device to the HDD and allow copying to these folders.
Pollensa1946 – 1 day ago »
clairehen – 11 hours ago »
No consolation but it’s exactly the same on the Humax Freesat boxes, 1000S/1010S/1100S. As stated, series episodes go into a folder, but sometimes the broadcaster does not get that right and you get some episodes shown singly. There is no method of organising your recordings other than taking them off to external storage.
How do you do that on the above boxes ?
grahamlthompson – 42 minutes ago »
Pollensa1946 – 1 day ago »
clairehen – 11 hours ago »
No consolation but it’s exactly the same on the Humax Freesat boxes, 1000S/1010S/1100S. As stated, series episodes go into a folder, but sometimes the broadcaster does not get that right and you get some episodes shown singly. There is no method of organising your recordings other than taking them off to external storage.
How do you do that on the above boxes ?
Well done, you picked up my bad grammar Graham
I was of course referring to the 4000T where another poster had referred to that capability on the 4000T.
Personally I’m not too concerned about not being able to put recordings into my own folders.
As said above, with series recordings the FVP4000 normally gets them in the right folder ….. but the fact that the default selection is the latest episode drives me and my Wife absolutely mad! The number of times we start to watch an episode of something and then realise that we are missing some key developments in the story because we are watching the wrong episode!
This is absolute madness. Has the techy who programmed this behaviour as the default never watched a TV series?
Richard
RichardS-UK – 1 minute ago »
Personally I’m not too concerned about not being able to put recordings into my own folders.
As said above, with series recordings the FVP4000 normally gets them in the right folder ….. but the fact that the default selection is the latest episode drives me and my Wife absolutely mad! The number of times we start to watch an episode of something and then realise that we are missing some key developments in the story because we are watching the wrong episode!
This is absolute madness. Has the techy who programmed this behaviour as the default never watched a TV series?
Richard
Be grateful you haven’t got a second generation Freesat box. The order is a complete inconsistant dogs dinner, at least it’s consistant on your box. The lack of a time makes it difficult to decipher which is the oldest recording when you only have two from the same date convinces me that the software designers never actually use the boxes. Earlier boxes had both user folders and user selectable recordings order. Why they removed these baffles me 🙄
RichardS-UK – 13 hours ago »
Personally I’m not too concerned about not being able to put recordings into my own folders.
As said above, with series recordings the FVP4000 normally gets them in the right folder ….. but the fact that the default selection is the latest episode drives me and my Wife absolutely mad! The number of times we start to watch an episode of something and then realise that we are missing some key developments in the story because we are watching the wrong episode!
This is absolute madness. Has the techy who programmed this behaviour as the default never watched a TV series?
Richard
I absolutely agree with you. My preference is to see selection of the episode that has been part watched if there is one followed by selection of the earliest episode that has not been watched.
Many thanks for all the posts. I did email Humax Support, who I have to say, do react quickly. The standard answer was: “Thank you for contacting Humax. Sadly there is no such feature available on the FVP at the moment but we will take your ideas on board for future updates”
Regarding the comment from KESRJack, my Sony died constantly for 4 years, which is why I switched to Humax. It works quite well as long as you are patient and leave power management off (as advised by Humax). Only time will tell of course! No doubt interesting to see what the imminent update will do – but that’s another subject altogether!
Another dead Sony! The worst thing about the switch from Sony is that apparently the saved files on there are not transferable and as a result I can’t migrate the stuff that was on there.
Haven’t heard about the Humax power management issue – can anyone tell me what I should do to turn it off as advised by Clairehen?
I don’t have the box, but it will be in the Power option in the settings,
Most likely two options
Auto Power Down which turns the box off after 3 hrs or so of no remote activity. And Power Saving in Sby which by default is on – If you want to loop through the aerial to a TV it has to be off ( Personally I would add a passive aerial splitter and keep it on).
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.