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I think that's pretty conclusive: the OP's problem is at Humax Towers and not with his specific Aura or how he's using it.

Yes, the HDD's self-repair mechanism should map out defective sectors. The result is transparent to the user or the operating system, apart from the statistics provided in the SMART data.

The HDR-FOX has (or had) several "features" whereby the EPG data becomes stale if the unit is only recording from standby, or if it is permanently on and stuck on one service. It seems possible the Aura has similar peculiarities.

One wonders what use any of those could be (apart from rebooting), if you didn't think this was to do with the CF! The only thing which might help is the system flush (see "supporting files"), which is not a CF thing (or at least is independent of having CF installed). Is that just losing the...

Repackaging is quick. You wouldn't need to re-encode.

So.... nothing to do with CF then (which was implied by the forum section you posted in)!

True .ts then. I don't know what a HDR-FOX does when faced with proper .ts, rather than .m2ts misrepresented as .ts.

Why not just release it as alpha and let the community test it?

That's great, but it would restrict the OP's choice to HDR-FOX and does not fully answer the question. What do we know about the 9200T's files?

Yes, sorry about that, I had decided to move it to a more appropriate thread, and then realised there was a better reply. Somehow you two managed to dive in during those few minutes – and I thought I was the only one stalking these corridors!

9200T data was never encrypted, but I know nothing of the file format. Use VLC or MediaInfo (or FFMPEG/FFPROBE) on an existing file and post what the container and stream formats are.

I take it this is on the WebIF not the box itself (SUI). Try the epgrange diagnostic.

So... is this Christmas prezzie imminent? Somehow you seem to have quoted from the old version of a post I deleted and replaced.

What we (well, Linux-phobes) need is a Christmas present in the form of this (which has been pending since last December): In summary, Linux non-users can: Use the stripts build for Windows, which requires Cygwin installed; Use the HFODU utility, which requires the Java runtime environment...

Just try doing an ffmpeg conversion to MP4 without re-encoding, see what happens.