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Hi all
Wonder if someone here has the answer.
We have a Humax 9300T which is becoming full up with stuff we want to keep.
Ideally, we want to transfer/archive the recordings on the PVR straight to DVD but don’t know how to do it.
The problem with using the PC is that the PVR is in a completely different part of the house to the computer.
In any event we don’t think the USB output from the PVR is functional. I don’t think Humax have enabled that yet.
Or am I wrong?
Is there a piece of kit we could buy to plug into the PVR and have the programs transferred to DVD?
We already had a DVD recorder but it’s a bit flakey and we loose quality recording first from the PVR on to the DVDR then secondly to DVD.
Any advice much appreciated.
Hi and welcome to the forum
You are correct about the USB port not being available for file transfers.
In order to transfer recordings from the 9300t you will need to either remove the drive and connect direct to the PC (do not let the PC ‘initialise’ the drive) then transfer the files off using humaxrw available from the download section here (link) (it’s about half-way down the page).
Alternatively you could do the eSATA cable mod (same as Foxsat mod here (link)) and when you want to transfer files you would need to disconnect from the 9300t and connect to an eSATA port on the PC (this may need to be added but is just a case of plugging a SATA to eSATA cable into a free SATA port on the motherboard.) Then use humaxrw as above. Again (do not let the PC ‘initialise’ the drive)
Once on the PC there are a variety of (free and commercial) DVD authoring programmes that can read the .ts files and burn to DVD. Personally I use VideoRedo TVSuite as it has frame level editing.
Thanks, aldaweb but, as I mentioned in my first post, the locations of the 9300T and the computer are nowhere near each other.
From what you say it seems the ONLY way to achieve what I want – without transferring to the DVDR first – is to connect the 9300T to a PC.
No can do. It’s too impractical.
I’m looking for a solution that doesn’t involve a PC but I guess there isn’t one.
A DVD recorder or vcr will record the content (preferably by RGB scart) in real time. Without using a PC these are the only items of kit with the required analogue to digital converters and real time mpeg2 compression that I can think of.
oddjob – 18 hours ago »
Thanks, aldaweb but, as I mentioned in my first post, the locations of the 9300T and the computer are nowhere near each other.
From what you say it seems the ONLY way to achieve what I want – without transferring to the DVDR first – is to connect the 9300T to a PC.
No can do. It’s too impractical.
I’m looking for a solution that doesn’t involve a PC but I guess there isn’t one.
The idea of using the eSATA mod is that the drive can be external and therefore more easily transportable to the PC than the 9300.
Otherwise you are stuck with recording to a standalone DVD or HDD/DVD recorder.
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