Copying and playing Humax recordings from Fresat on other TVs

[dcoles]

Humax Foxsat PVR - copying and playing files.

I have a Humax Foxsat 1TB PVR connected to my main TV. I also have two other HD TVs elsewhere in the house (Bedroom and kitchen). What is the best way to copy files from the Humax unit so that I can play them on the other TVs without unplugging the Humax unit and carryiing it through to the other room. (both Toshibas with HDMI, Scart and USB slots). I can't use cable runs because walls are very thick.
I assume I will need some sort of player but does anyone know of one I can copy to direct from the Humax unit or alternatively transfer to and play files from the Humax using a USB memory stick?

 

[The Bard cv37]

Are you 100% refering to freesat and **NOT** Freetime

 

[REPASSAC]

Lots of possibilities - depends on what the TV's can themselves play.
USB, Custom firmware are both options.
I would suggest trying USB first to determine if the TV understands the .ts files.
If not a media player would be good.

 

[grahamlthompson]

I have one of these, paired with a usb powered 500GB drive it will play back Foxsat TS files (HD as well if unencrypted) on any TV with a hdmi socket.

Xenta HDMI Upscaling Mini Media Player: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Was using it to watch some recordings in a hotel room a couple of weeks ago.

 

[jlearmonth]

I have a PC with Servio media server loaded.
It will serve up the TS files but my Sony won't play them.
I had to convert them to a different format.
However my Raspberry PI/XBMC will play them OK.
So perhaps you TV might play them from Serviio.
JL

 

[dcoles]

Many Thanks

Looks like the Xentia might be more reliable (and cheap) and great if it's quite portable - did you copy the files onto a USB from a HUMAX PVR?

 

[dcoles]

Sorry Redlands - didn't reply to you earlier - yes it's Freesat I'm recordiing from, not Freeview

DC

 

[zekepliskin]

A software modified Xbox 1 running XBMC will play SD files that are TS from the Foxsat-HDR, streamed over the network. Not the easiest method these days, but considering they can be picked up for as low as £1 from car boot sales and the softmod only takes an hour or so to do very, very cost effective!

 

[logiciel]

Are you 100% refering to freesat and **NOT** Freetime

yes it's Freesat I'm recordiing from, not Freeview

 

[The Bard cv37]

*****dcoles****** if you tell people which one of several Humax freesat boxes you have, we can better guide you--The freesat box I have, what you want to do is easy to achieve

 

[grahamlthompson]

Many Thanks

Looks like the Xentia might be more reliable (and cheap) and great if it's quite portable - did you copy the files onto a USB from a HUMAX PVR?

I used the Custom Firmware to ftp them directly to a PC. Edited out any ads using Videoredo TVsuite. Without the CF you will need a usb drive formatted EXT3 if you have recordings larger than 4GB.

 

[zekepliskin]

C series and above Samsung TVs should play standard def and high def content copied from the Foxsat-HDR in one way or another to a USB2 HDD or similar. Mine plays the 1080i HD TS files made by the box with no editing or remuxing whatsoever, I just copy them,to a portable USB2 HDD via FTP when the drive is hooked into a PC (seems a tad faster than doing it on the Foxsat-HDR itself) and plug them into the TV's own USB2 slot and off it goes.

 

[dcoles]

Thanks guys for all the advice.

I bought a small media player and found an unused 1TB Toshiba portable drive that I'd forgotten I had (Doh!). I reformatted the drive to EXT2 from an old laptop running Ubuntu (had options for formatting as Fat32, EXT2 or EXT4 but not EXT3). However, when I plug the reformatted external HDD into the Humax PVR the file manager says it can't read it because it's not formatted in either FAT16/32 or EXT3.

I thought EXT2 and EXT3 were more or less identical for this purpose. Does anyone have any ideas?

David

 

[grahamlthompson]

Thanks guys for all the advice.

I bought a small media player and found an unused 1TB Toshiba portable drive that I'd forgotten I had (Doh!). I reformatted the drive to EXT2 from an old laptop running Ubuntu (had options for formatting as Fat32, EXT2 or EXT4 but not EXT3). However, when I plug the reformatted external HDD into the Humax PVR the file manager says it can't read it because it's not formatted in either FAT16/32 or EXT3.

I thought EXT2 and EXT3 were more or less identical for this purpose. Does anyone have any ideas?

David

EXT2 apparently only works on usb sticks. A HDD has to be EXT3.

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