Not sure if this has been done before but i couldnt find any information anyway so thought id post how i did it.
IF you take the hard drive out of your recorder (mines a hxd870) you can plug it into your computer with a sata cable. The filesystem is unknown as far as im aware so it will not be shown as a drive on the system. However we dont need it to be in this case.
If you get a bit of software called 'HXD Hex Editor' from 'http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/' you can open the drive and view the content in hex. I suggest you make sure when you open it you do so with read only so you dont mess anything up. To open the drive just go to 'Extras' then 'Open Disk..' You will have to work out some how which disk is which.
After you open the hard drive you want to 'Save' the whole disk to you PC. Now this might be a problem if you not got much space or if you upgraded the hard drive previously. to save just do a 'File' 'Save As' to somewhere on a drive with enough free space.
Once that is done which might take a while. Might took about a hour and 15 mins for a 160gig drive. You can now go get a program called 'Extractor', this bit of software will look though your hex dump and extract *.mpg files. You can find the software at 'http://www.volny.cz/nova-software/' Once installed you might have to change the language by going into options and looking around till you find out where it is to change it. You want to set your files to scan to the file you just dumped and set a extracted files folder. make sure you only select the file type to search as *.mpg this will save you time. then hit start.
After a while you will see the scanning box fill up with *.mpg files. Once the scan has finished you can then highlight the files you want and click on extract.
You will then have all the video off that drive on your PC that you can watch at any time.
I dont think this is the best way to do this however. im sure there must be some software which will just scan directly off the disk instead of copying it to your PC first. IF you know of any software which does this please tell me.
I think this method will work for any number of other HDD recorders from differnet brands if you so need. As long as you know the format of the Video files which it records in and the extractor supports it you should be ok. IF you dont know the format i guess you can just scan for all the video formats and see what comes up, thats what i did.
I have only posted this for infmational purposes and i dont suggest you use this to take copy protected material off the tv and distribute it else where. Either way im not responsable
Enjoy
IF you take the hard drive out of your recorder (mines a hxd870) you can plug it into your computer with a sata cable. The filesystem is unknown as far as im aware so it will not be shown as a drive on the system. However we dont need it to be in this case.
If you get a bit of software called 'HXD Hex Editor' from 'http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/' you can open the drive and view the content in hex. I suggest you make sure when you open it you do so with read only so you dont mess anything up. To open the drive just go to 'Extras' then 'Open Disk..' You will have to work out some how which disk is which.
After you open the hard drive you want to 'Save' the whole disk to you PC. Now this might be a problem if you not got much space or if you upgraded the hard drive previously. to save just do a 'File' 'Save As' to somewhere on a drive with enough free space.
Once that is done which might take a while. Might took about a hour and 15 mins for a 160gig drive. You can now go get a program called 'Extractor', this bit of software will look though your hex dump and extract *.mpg files. You can find the software at 'http://www.volny.cz/nova-software/' Once installed you might have to change the language by going into options and looking around till you find out where it is to change it. You want to set your files to scan to the file you just dumped and set a extracted files folder. make sure you only select the file type to search as *.mpg this will save you time. then hit start.
After a while you will see the scanning box fill up with *.mpg files. Once the scan has finished you can then highlight the files you want and click on extract.
You will then have all the video off that drive on your PC that you can watch at any time.
I dont think this is the best way to do this however. im sure there must be some software which will just scan directly off the disk instead of copying it to your PC first. IF you know of any software which does this please tell me.
I think this method will work for any number of other HDD recorders from differnet brands if you so need. As long as you know the format of the Video files which it records in and the extractor supports it you should be ok. IF you dont know the format i guess you can just scan for all the video formats and see what comes up, thats what i did.
I have only posted this for infmational purposes and i dont suggest you use this to take copy protected material off the tv and distribute it else where. Either way im not responsable
Enjoy