DaveReading
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I'm working my way through a backlog of stuff I've recorded over the years, now I have more time to spare. The TV is in use most of the time, so I've been using VLC on my laptop instead.
Having had buffering problems with Mediatomb on the Humax, I tried TwonkyMedia 4 and that runs fine for playing SD recordings.
HD recordings, however, are a different matter - while the earlier ones predate the custom firmware and HD patch, so I can't watch them anyway, the recent unencrypted ones play OK, but suffer from artifacts. I suspect that's a bandwidth issue - I can't get an Ethernet cable to my box, so it uses a cheap and cheerful 2.4 GHz wifi dongle to talk to my network.
So plan B was to use sneakernet - copying any HD recording I wanted to watch to a USB stick and then plugging that into the laptop. The copy works fine - having used EaseUS to format the stick as ext3, the Foxsat will happily read and write to it, and play files from the USB stick.
But I can't find any utilities that currently support ext3 under Windows 10, as those that used to work seem to be broken by recent W10 updates. EaseUS can see the ext3 partition, and it will even list the files that I've copied onto it, but I can't get the drive mounted under Windows using either Ext2FSD or DiskInternals Linux Reader.
So, not so much a Foxsat issue as a Windows/Linux compatibility issue - has anyone found a W10/ext3 driver that still works with the latest Windows updates?
Having had buffering problems with Mediatomb on the Humax, I tried TwonkyMedia 4 and that runs fine for playing SD recordings.
HD recordings, however, are a different matter - while the earlier ones predate the custom firmware and HD patch, so I can't watch them anyway, the recent unencrypted ones play OK, but suffer from artifacts. I suspect that's a bandwidth issue - I can't get an Ethernet cable to my box, so it uses a cheap and cheerful 2.4 GHz wifi dongle to talk to my network.
So plan B was to use sneakernet - copying any HD recording I wanted to watch to a USB stick and then plugging that into the laptop. The copy works fine - having used EaseUS to format the stick as ext3, the Foxsat will happily read and write to it, and play files from the USB stick.
But I can't find any utilities that currently support ext3 under Windows 10, as those that used to work seem to be broken by recent W10 updates. EaseUS can see the ext3 partition, and it will even list the files that I've copied onto it, but I can't get the drive mounted under Windows using either Ext2FSD or DiskInternals Linux Reader.
So, not so much a Foxsat issue as a Windows/Linux compatibility issue - has anyone found a W10/ext3 driver that still works with the latest Windows updates?