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Anyone tried recording one of the new HD streams ? I get the can’t make recordings of less than 30 seconds, similar to the problem with the CH4-HD test transmissions.
Me too. Perhaps it will change when they actually start transmitting rather than just have the MHEG display?
The box will let you make a recording reservation from the epg when there is live content. No idea if the reservation will actually work.
I don’t have this option, does one need to re-tune and how does it display >
Just to add your Foxsat needed to be in stanby overnight.
got it !
Agreed – now much lower than say 101. Incidentally audio is mpeg1 layer 2 not DD. I have set a reservation for the football 16:00 today. Interesting to see what happens
Yep same here
Disappointing that with over 24 hours notice freesat and the beeb could not sort this out. Give C4 a call they might put you right
Disappointing that with over 24 hours notice freesat and the beeb could not sort this out. Give C4 a call they might put you right
Unfortunately it is nothing to do with the Beeb – it is between FreeSat, Sky and the coder manufacturers to sort the problem. FreeSat became aware two days ago and told Beeb distribution one day ago!
I’ve just got two 1TB humax boxes to record the olympics whilst I am at the games from tomorrow. Can I have some advice please?
I want to be able to:
set the boxes to recorrd a whole channel (one for BBC one HD, another for BBC HD), approx twelve hours a day
– is it best to do an hour at a time due to file sizes do you think?
transfer the recordings off the boxes at the end
– presumably this means recording in non freesat mode does it? Without the EPG.
Would there be any advantage putting a custom rom on the box to do this?
thanks
Slightly modified version of a response to the same post on another forum
You can’t set timers to record non-freesat mode so only way to get unencrypted HD is to make manual recordings. You can transfer encrypted to usb but only play them back on the box that recorded them. Currently you can’t record the 24 HD streams on a Foxsat.
Choice of recording times is largely down to the USB device file system you are using on the USB device.
FAT32 max file size is 4GB say 30-45 minutes for safeties sake on a HD channel.
EXT3 shouldn’t be a problem.
There’s only 1 custom firmware for the Foxsat that I know of.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/frees…-part-2-a.html
In your case it would let you add the SD Olympic streams to the epg and timer record them in the usual way from the epg.
Although you can add non-freesat channels to freesat mode and set manual timers, HD channels recorded this way retain the encryption.
There is also a way of editing/adding timers over the internet of that’s any use in your circumstances.
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