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Hello,
I copied some sd (standard definition) programs from my Humax HDR-foxsat to a usb drive formatted as linux ext3 and plugged it into my HDR-1100s but it doesnt recognise the drive. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Should I be able to watch sd programs from an external drive on the 1100s just like I can on my foxsat? I read somewhere that the foxsat doesnt encrypt the sd files so they should be fine, the (.ts files) play ok with VLC on Windows, but anyway I cannot see anywhere to access the usb drive on the HDR-1100s. If I go into setting and HD it only shows the internal drive.
Thanks
Or if I connect both boxes to my router is there a way of viewing the programs stored on my HDRfoxsat using my HDR1000s?
dd500 – 1 hour ago »
Or if I connect both boxes to my router is there a way of viewing the programs stored on my HDRfoxsat using my HDR1000s?
I am no expert on the Freesat boxes but my recollection is that the only use for the USB port is software updates.
Thanks. It’s unusual though that my 15 year old foxsat box has more features than the newer 1100s box..
I know this is an old post, but in case anyone is wondering, you can find the connected USB drive in Settings, Storage – where you can eject it, copy files from it to your HDD, or play video, audio, and pictures.
The only video files it recognises are DIVx or MP4 – so it might be worth renaming your .TS files as .MP4 and seeing if that works.
I’ve only tried this so far with a USB HDD formatted as NTFS, so if you still see nothing when you have .MP4 files on your drive, try re-formatting to NTFS.
GeoffKurth – 5 hours ago »
I know this is an old post, but in case anyone is wondering, you can find the connected USB drive in Settings, Storage – where you can eject it, copy files from it to your HDD, or play video, audio, and pictures.
The only video files it recognises are DIVx or MP4 – so it might be worth renaming your .TS files as .MP4 and seeing if that works.
I’ve only tried this so far with a USB HDD formatted as NTFS, so if you still see nothing when you have .MP4 files on your drive, try re-formatting to NTFS.
Geoff thanks for the info, I would have thought the box would recognise EXT3 as the internal drive is formatted EXT3. Anyway I will try NTFS. Is there anyway of converting the EXT3 to NTFS without losing the files? as there are 1TB of videos on my old box I don’t want to end up deleting them all.
When you tried connecting an external drive was it a 2.5 HD which gets the power via USB or a 12v powered 3.5 HD? As my 2.5 HD is not visible at all I wonder if its not getting enough power. Thanks
Following my post I can confurm that the USB drive must be formatted as FAT or NTFS, the HDR1100S simply ignores other formats (including EXT3) – perverse I know!
I checked by simply cloning the original drive off the HDR1100S to a 2.5″ HDD, instead of copying the files from it to the same 2.5″ HDD, the EXT3 filesystem is all there and fine when checked on a Linux PC, but completely ignored by the Humax when connected to either of its USB ports (check my other post to see why I’m doing this).
Thanks for the info. I formatted the 2.5″ usb hd to ntfs but when I plug it in the remote control stops working so I cannot access settings/storage. The hd works fine in Windows.
Maybe the hd is not getting enough power. At a later date I will try using a powered hub or a powered 3.5″ drive as I recall some years ago on my humax foxsat the drive was only recognised using a powered hub so maybe it’s the same problem.
That’s unusual, as I wouldn’t have thought the HDR1100S would have problems delivering power – have you tried both USB sockets?
The drive I’m trying is an old Seagate 500GB laptop drive in a Sabrent USB 3.0 enclosure – powered by USB – rated at 0.55A on 5V – and works fine connected to the faulty HDR1100S – when formatted NTFS with standard video files – MPG, MP4, etc.
GeoffKurth – 1 hour ago »
That’s unusual, as I wouldn’t have thought the HDR1100S would have problems delivering power – have you tried both USB sockets?
The drive I’m trying is an old Seagate 500GB laptop drive in a Sabrent USB 3.0 enclosure – powered by USB – rated at 0.55A on 5V – and works fine connected to the faulty HDR1100S – when formatted NTFS with standard video files – MPG, MP4, etc.
I tried a different external 2.5 hd formatted ntfs and it worked right away so maybe the other one I tried had a fault, it can play many types of video formats, avi, mp4, mpeg, .ts etc etc
I then removed the old 3.5 hd from the foxsat receiver and put it in an enclosure and plugged it into the HDR1100S and it works fine, I didn’t need to convert it to ntfs, its still formatted linux ext3. So its unusual why yours doesn’t work as ext3.
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