Recent content by ejstubbs

Thanks, will try that (although I do now have a couple of actual recordings scheduled on the Humax in the next couple of days, so I won't be able to check whether it works until they've been completed). Because I do still sometimes schedule recordings on the Humax, and I like having the...

Sorry, I meant to say that I do have a reminder called "Disable OTA" set on channel 250 (BBC Red Button) from 04:20 to 04:40 every morning. I also have the disable-dso and disable-ota packages installed, and the setting for disable-ota to create a reminder over the OTA period is set to "yes"...

Following the HDMI green screen issues documented on another thread, I've relegated my HDR-FOX T2 to my second string PVR*, only using it to record things when I have a logjam of schedules on what is now my main PVR. This means that there's often no programmes scheduled to record, although I...

That's the same YouTube video that prompted me to try the audio extractor from Amazon. I suspect that the internals of these things can vary quite significantly over time e.g. as the original silicon is replaced with newer/cheaper stuff that on the face of it does the same job but at the...

It's less than a tenner at the moment on eBay (with the help of a kindly provided discount code) so I'm going to give it a go. Thanks for the info about your experience with it. One other question, if it's not too much trouble: do you know what versions of the bootloader and firmware your...

That looks identical to the one I bought from Amazon (for rather more money) and which didn't work for me. What TV do you have? I can easily return the Amazon one (I was planning to do that anyway) and try the eBay one instead, just in case there is a difference. It would be useful if you...

Ah, I do now seem to remember the bit about switching between 1080i and 1080p during broadcasts. If that is still happening then I assume that the TV is 'smart' enough not to keep popping up an on-screen message every time it changes.

Update: the AV cable with the "mini" 3.5mm plug and ground on the second ring works just fine once you get the cables plugged together the right way round (which is definitely not 1:1 with the colour-coding of the sockets on the Humax: yellow, which is the composite video plug on the Humax, has...

Let me think...there were two Panasonics, one Samsung, one Sony and another one I can't recall the make of, but it was not any of the aforementioned. LG maybe? All, except one of the Panasonics, produced the green screen. Yes. My symptoms are exactly as described in there. The link to the...

That is precisely how I have it set up. However, what I now realise I've been doing is logging in as "humaxftp" rather than "root". (Note to self: RTFW.) Er, not exactly. I know what the setting was when it worked: bog standard out-of-the-box HDMI settings on the TV, vformat set to 1080p on...

The FTP server on the Humax doesn't seem to give access to anything other than the My Music, My Photos and My Video folders on the box itself, and the USB drives connected to it (some of which are actually SMB shares on the NAS). I used FTP to rename the .ts file specifically. I have tried...

I'd happily try that, but the file editor in the custom firmware (on the "Diagnostics" page) doesn't want to play with xml for some reason (fundamentally, it's just text, right?) Ah, OK, I didn't realise that's what it was (Unix command line stuff is far from my forte). Renaming is fine...

Thanks for the suggestion. Mediatomb will serve the content on the USB disc, but it doesn't list the test files renamed from .ts to .m2ts that I put in My Video on the box itself. Roku Media Player refuses to play the .ts files, but at least it says so rather than just sitting there saying...

Interesting idea. The Humax might not be too keen, though: the .ts file is part of a four-file 'package' that makes up the actual recording as it appears in the Humax' media list. Changing the filename suffix of the video might confuse the Humax. Alternatively, I could try copying the .ts...

In simple terms* "4K" - which usually means 3840x2160@60Hz - requires HDMI 2.0, especially if HDR is involved. Earlier versions of HDMI did support 4K resolutions, but at lower frame rates. HDMI 2.0 was released in 2013 so significantly post the release of the HDR FOX-T2. I suspect that the...