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Hi guys,
my first post, have a Foxsat HDR recorder and have successfully installed Raydon’s latest firmware – however, if I FTP any HD recorded .TS file then I cannot playback on any player, even VLC. If I FTP an SD program then VLC plays A-OK……HELP!
OR – do i need to convert to something else before playback??
MAny thanks,
Colin.
All HD recordings made in freesat mode are encrypted and can only be played back on the HDR they were recorded on. If you want unencrypted HD then select non-freesat mode, put the box in standby then restart. All HD recordings made will be unencrypted till you return to freesat mode.
ahhh, ok Many thanks Raydon – I just thought I’d read somewhere that you’d managed to remove the encryption from the HD recordings? – do you ever think this will be possible?
Thanks again and excellent work by the way!
cdreed01 – 39 seconds ago »
ahhh, ok Many thanks Raydon – I just thought I’d read somewhere that you’d managed to remove the encryption from the HD recordings? – do you ever think this will be possible?
Thanks again and excellent work by the way!
If it is possible (it clearly is) then it would be illegal. None of the ways of getting HD without encryption involve reverse engineering the encryption system and finding the appropriate encryption key.
Generic Free To Air HD pvr satellite boxes record HD without encryption anyway. Using a Foxsat-hdr in non-freesat is doing exactly the same.
Please read the Forum policy on discussing encryption:
http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/removal-of-certain-links-and-posts
Can someone confirm that non-freesat mode still disables the epg? To my mind this makes non-freesat mode useless, or is there a clever workaround?
I’d love to be able to watch hd recordings on other household devices e.g. iPads, android etc but it seems it’s not possible without ruining the ability to be able to record things in the first place!
Sorry if this is a dumb question!
Ta
If you have Raydon’s modded firmware installed then you can use the Channel Editor bundled with it to add non-Freesat channels as pseudo-Freesat channels and you don’t need to change to non-Freesat mode to get to them. No EPG info for those added channels of course but they show up in the standard channel list and EPG.
again, apologies if this is a naive question –
I’m not bothered about adding other channels, I want to convince it to record HD unencrypted so I can then stream to my ipad etc. Raydon said you had to select non-freesat mode to record unencrypted, but I read that disables the EPG.
thanks for the response.
Doubledrat – 12 minutes ago »
again, apologies if this is a naive question –
I’m not bothered about adding other channels, I want to convince it to record HD unencrypted so I can then stream to my ipad etc. Raydon said you had to select non-freesat mode to record unencrypted, but I read that disables the EPG.
thanks for the response.
Broadcasters pay Freesat for the epg service (its Freesat’s source of income to provide the service), you can’t expect those that don’t to get the service for free. In non-freesat mode just like most any other generic fta box you only get the now/next information transmitted along with video/audio data.
ok, just one more question, then I’ll give up
is there a way of getting some sort of EPG functionality in non-freesat mode? I would therefore be able to get things recorded without encryption.
perhaps the custom firmware allows control from a PC or something?
thanks
gomezz – 1 day ago »
If you have Raydon’s modded firmware installed then you can use the Channel Editor bundled with it to add non-Freesat channels as pseudo-Freesat channels and you don’t need to change to non-Freesat mode to get to them. No EPG info for those added channels of course but they show up in the standard channel list and EPG.
The interesting thing about this is you can indeed record HD channels in the non-Freesat range unencrypted while still in Freesat mode, and the EPG for some of those channels still works, but when you schedule recordings on that channel it doesn’t seem to work. At least, not scheduling it via the EPG. In the interest of testing this, I’ve scheduled a recording on non-Freesat BBC One HD (channel 5001 on my box) with manual setting… if it works, we’ve basically got the ability to record any HD channel unencrypted to a schedule, which is stupidly useful.
Ah. The caveat with setting a manually scheduled recording on a non-Freesat channel added to Freesat EPG listing appears to be it’ll add the (R) icon to a bunch of other shows you haven’t scheduled, also in the non-Freesat range. Only on the EPG itself though – the Schedule list still appears accurate.
For example, for test purposes I just put “BBC News at Ten” on 5001 BBC One HD in as a manual recording, and now about nine shows on BBC HD, ITV 1 HD, Channel4 HD and NHK World HD have the recording icon by them, including one point where there are four shows at once “phantom” scheduled on the EPG, which is of course impossible. Assuming the true manually scheduled recording on the non-Freesat HD channel records and none of the phantom ones do, I would consider this EPG glitch a worthy trade off.
zeke – 21 minutes ago »
gomezz – 1 day ago »
If you have Raydon’s modded firmware installed then you can use the Channel Editor bundled with it to add non-Freesat channels as pseudo-Freesat channels and you don’t need to change to non-Freesat mode to get to them. No EPG info for those added channels of course but they show up in the standard channel list and EPG.
The interesting thing about this is you can indeed record HD channels in the non-Freesat range unencrypted while still in Freesat mode, and the EPG for some of those channels still works, but when you schedule recordings on that channel it doesn’t seem to work. At least, not scheduling it via the EPG. In the interest of testing this, I’ve scheduled a recording on non-Freesat BBC One HD (channel 5001 on my box) with manual setting… if it works, we’ve basically got the ability to record any HD channel unencrypted to a schedule, which is stupidly useful.
It doesn’t work, you have to enter non-freesat and re-boot the box. Additionally you can’t record Freesat channels and Freesat channels at the same time even though you are still in Freesat mode.
Damn! My test file seemed to suggest it would work, but it recorded a few seconds and the rest is corrupt/encrypted.
This is a shame. Back to non-Freesat mode for unencrypted HD recordings then…
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