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Glad to see you’ve managed to recover some/most/all of your recordings. Always suspected that folders ending .ts contained chunks (they do on the 2000T). I can’t access the contents via ftp, although they will play and stream properly (unlike the 2000T).
I haven’t been able to check if all the recordings are there yet. I can’t see any HD flags but maybe she didn’t record anything in HD? I’ve always advised her not to record HD due to the extra space it takes. I’m currently installing Debian 11 again (which is taking forever). When done I will mount the old disk, and check how many *.ts files there are (excluding those in the folders). I’m sure she will be happy with what has been salvaged regardless. The only thing that makes me suspicious is the number of recordings being 255. Takes me back to 8-bit where 255 is the largest number. I’m sure that the 5000T can could higher than that though
When transferring files between my two Foxsat HDRs, I use a flash drive formatted to EXT4 if the filesize is over 4GB. I presume file “chunks” is the way Humax got around the FAT32 limitation?
Can be larger than 255. I’ve had around 350 on mine at one point. Not sure there is any obvious distinction in the filestore between HD and SD recordings, apart from size. You may have already moved some!
Hi, I have the FVP-5000T 1TB model with a similar fault, my problem is I cannot format the hard drive, the playback options and storage are greyed out. I have reset to factory defaults but still the same. The reason I want to format the hard drive is because when I playback a recording the following message comes up “Cannot Support This Video File Due To Invalid File Format” I also fitted a new A/V hard drive but still the same. I would appreciate your advice please before I use it as a Frisbee.
Kind Regards. Alec
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Can be larger than 255. I’ve had around 350 on mine at one point. Not sure there is any obvious distinction in the filestore between HD and SD recordings, apart from size. You may have already moved some!
You may well be right that I’ve unknowingly copied some HD files over already. As for the file count vs previously mentioned 255 programmes listed in the recordings list. The original files are in partition 2 “Recordings” directory has 252 *.nts files, 252 *.hjts files and 255 *.hjm files and 7 seemingly random 6 letter/number extensions. I guess are all recordings are there then
JW.LEES – 4 hours ago »
Hi, I have the FVP-5000T 1TB model with a similar fault, ..[snip].. I would appreciate your advice please before I use it as a Frisbee.
Is it still under guarentee? I think the 5000T has a 2 year manufacturer warranty???
First big if : Do you have means to connect the PVR HDD to a PC or raspberry Pi running a Linux based operating system? The internal hard disk is formatted EXT4 (or EXT3) and Windows won’t read that natively (I don’t think?). If yes, I’d be looking to see if I could extract some recordings from the HDD and put them on a USB flash drive just to see if the PVR will play them. If I could play files this way but not while the drive was inside the PVR, I’d assume the 5000T to be end of life.
Second big if : Do you happen to have a spare SATA drive hanging around? If so, swap it in the PVR and see if you can format it.
One thing I wouldn’t do is buy a HDD specially unless I knew first for certain that the original was duff.
If you can’t do any of the above, then did you see the option to do a “Reset All Settings and format HDD”?
Freeview play / Settings / System settings / Factory Default.
It didn’t help anything for me though as this machine can’t see the internal drive at all.
Final thought : if you are going to use the 5000T as a frisbee, it might go further without its internal hard disk?
Best of luck.
Identical issue on my FVP-4000T.
I have a USB caddy for SATA drives and plugged the HDD in… There as a useful bit of freeware named ‘AOMEI Partition Assistant’, which lets you check the drive from a windows PC… The drive was fine and the issue is with the PVR. I confirmed this with a new disk… Menu functions for these disks aren’t accessible and I can’t even hear the disks spinning.
Under warranty, Humax offered a replacement when this occurred, there is an item on the motherboard that is likely to have fried… I read on another forum this is usually a particular resistor…. Does anyone on this forum know which component Humax were replacing on these returned devices?
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