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1. BootHDR and 1.03.06 firmware
  
  Been hammering at this a little. Not much progress yet but a few initial thoughts and observations... Sadly its not as simple as the drive being marked as removable - the 1st usb device on the hd, mapped to sda is flagged as non-removable anyway. cat /sys/block/sda/removable gives 0 also. I...
  Drutt
  
  Post #10
  
  Nov 21, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
2. Record directly to external drive
  
  Just also tried mapping the whole video folder, and that worked fine too, so I think it would be perfectly possible to temporarily (or permanently) map the video folder to an external device. As BH pointed out the recordings would be encrypted, but should be picked up by the DLNA decrypt in...
  Drutt
  
  Post #7
  
  Nov 21, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
3. Record directly to external drive
  
  Just tried a quick experiment of using mount to map the folder that a series record was about start, to a folder on a different drive, and that worked fine. This is on an HD (mapping the usb drive to a network drive), but I suspect it would work on an HDR also.
  Drutt
  
  Post #6
  
  Nov 21, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
4. Nicesplice problem
  
  Tim, there is a new version (1.5) of nicesplice is uploaded, with better memory usage and no file length limit. Let me know if it works with your recording in case if you still have it. Thanks! Steve
  Drutt
  
  Post #27
  
  Nov 21, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
5. Crop Failed
  
  New version (1.5) of nicesplice is uploaded, with better memory usage and no file length limit. I'll try and take a look fiddle the timestamps for fussy players issue at some point.
  Drutt
  
  Post #23
  
  Nov 21, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
6. Nicesplice magic folders problem
  
  Apologies for only just picking up this thread. Magic folders produces a log in tmp/editMonitor.log which should show any problems it encountered. You should be able to view this through the webif (diagnostics page I think). I notice above it looks like you may have copied the file to crop...
  Drutt
  
  Post #11
  
  Nov 18, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
7. Crop Failed
  
  The sidecar files are only used by the humax, and the times in these are all fixed up. I don' t do anything with the timestamps in the ts stream chuncks which are trickier to fix up, and didn't seem to cause problem with most external players, but I can certainly see how it may confuse some is...
  Drutt
  
  Post #21
  
  Nov 15, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
8. Crop Failed
  
  a couple of "-"s in the wrong places? Just fixed, and added -tsr (used to process the 0.nts when grabbing the time shift buffer)
  Drutt
  
  Post #20
  
  Nov 15, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
9. Crop Failed
  
  Yup - it was just lazy static array. No longer though. Still better to fix the cause rather than the symptom. Its something I've been meaning look at for ages, as the maximum video size / length limitaions have also caused a few problems over the summer (reading festival, Wimbledon etc)...
  Drutt
  
  Post #18
  
  Nov 15, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
10. Crop Failed
  
  I've spent the last few evenings working on a caching system for nicesplice to reduce its memory footprint, and turn it back into a sweeter fruit. For anyone interested in the technical details, the issue is that it loads the entire nts (the videos time/position index) into memory so it can...
  Drutt
  
  Post #11
  
  Nov 14, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
11. BootHDR and 1.03.06 firmware
  
  Nice one - it had crossed my mind to try this, mainly to check out the new iplayer, but haven't had the time, and I must admit was mildly worried it might brick it :eek: . I think the reason DLNA doesn't work is more down to the fact I could never persuade it to believe it had an internal hard...
  Drutt
  
  Post #3
  
  Nov 4, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
12. Nicesplice problem
  
  It's been a fair old while since I've looked at the nicesplice code, but I'll try and find some time soon to see if I can recreate this problem. It certainly looks like it's down to the size of the recording - it was quite tricky getting support for files of > 4 gigs in, and there may be some...
  Drutt
  
  Post #23
  
  Aug 25, 2013
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
13. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  I'll have a play and see if I can replicate it, but any more clues appreciated (eg is it only if you remove stuff from the start, is it definitely only HD recordings, does the problem occur if the recording is shrunk beforehand?)
  Drutt
  
  Post #177
  
  Dec 9, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
14. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  No, I'm afraid I did make a start on that, but never got it working. Should only be a rare problem, as recordings you want to join are nearly always from the same source, but I might look at it again though if there is demand though...
  Drutt
  
  Post #171
  
  Dec 6, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
15. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  No, it will have just have (almost) 2 minutes of the 2nd channel, linked with the .hmt from the current (ie first) channel. This won't actually play, as the program/channel ids in the hmt won't match those in the stream. This is why you have to wait at least as long back on the first channel...
  Drutt
  
  Post #166
  
  Nov 17, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
16. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  Exactly right :)
  Drutt
  
  Post #164
  
  Nov 16, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
17. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  This is expected - when you switch channels it starts overwriting the previous buffer, so how much you get depends on how long you were on the other channel. Yup - obviously make sure you've not left any recordings in there before you do ;)
  Drutt
  
  Post #162
  
  Nov 16, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
18. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  Worth pointing out as I didn't mention it explicitly above: One of the most useful features it gives to the HD is a limited ability to record 2 channels at once (as long as they are on the same mux), as you can record one, watch another, then grab the tsr. Its good that the 4 main HD channels...
  Drutt
  
  Post #160
  
  Nov 16, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
19. Samba and HDR
  
  It is possible, but I noticed the word "mac"... If you are using osx Lion or later, smb to the Humax doesn't work, as Apple's new implementation only supports the latest version of the protocol, and samba on the box doesn't. However you can use the nfs protocol instead - there are some details...
  Drutt
  
  Post #4
  
  Nov 16, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
20. [nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing
  
  Has anyone had a chance to test tsr grabbing on an hdr yet? Did it work as expected? Any feedback appreciated...
  Drutt
  
  Post #156
  
  Nov 15, 2012
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware

BootHDR and 1.03.06 firmware

Been hammering at this a little. Not much progress yet but a few initial thoughts and observations... Sadly its not as simple as the drive being marked as removable - the 1st usb device on the hd, mapped to sda is flagged as non-removable anyway. cat /sys/block/sda/removable gives 0 also. I...
- Drutt
- Post #10
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Record directly to external drive

Just also tried mapping the whole video folder, and that worked fine too, so I think it would be perfectly possible to temporarily (or permanently) map the video folder to an external device. As BH pointed out the recordings would be encrypted, but should be picked up by the DLNA decrypt in...
- Drutt
- Post #7
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Record directly to external drive

Just tried a quick experiment of using mount to map the folder that a series record was about start, to a folder on a different drive, and that worked fine. This is on an HD (mapping the usb drive to a network drive), but I suspect it would work on an HDR also.
- Drutt
- Post #6
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Nicesplice problem

Tim, there is a new version (1.5) of nicesplice is uploaded, with better memory usage and no file length limit. Let me know if it works with your recording in case if you still have it. Thanks! Steve
- Drutt
- Post #27
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Crop Failed

New version (1.5) of nicesplice is uploaded, with better memory usage and no file length limit. I'll try and take a look fiddle the timestamps for fussy players issue at some point.
- Drutt
- Post #23
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Nicesplice magic folders problem

Apologies for only just picking up this thread. Magic folders produces a log in tmp/editMonitor.log which should show any problems it encountered. You should be able to view this through the webif (diagnostics page I think). I notice above it looks like you may have copied the file to crop...
- Drutt
- Post #11
- Nov 18, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Crop Failed

The sidecar files are only used by the humax, and the times in these are all fixed up. I don' t do anything with the timestamps in the ts stream chuncks which are trickier to fix up, and didn't seem to cause problem with most external players, but I can certainly see how it may confuse some is...
- Drutt
- Post #21
- Nov 15, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Crop Failed

a couple of "-"s in the wrong places? Just fixed, and added -tsr (used to process the 0.nts when grabbing the time shift buffer)
- Drutt
- Post #20
- Nov 15, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Crop Failed

Yup - it was just lazy static array. No longer though. Still better to fix the cause rather than the symptom. Its something I've been meaning look at for ages, as the maximum video size / length limitaions have also caused a few problems over the summer (reading festival, Wimbledon etc)...
- Drutt
- Post #18
- Nov 15, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Crop Failed

I've spent the last few evenings working on a caching system for nicesplice to reduce its memory footprint, and turn it back into a sweeter fruit. For anyone interested in the technical details, the issue is that it loads the entire nts (the videos time/position index) into memory so it can...
- Drutt
- Post #11
- Nov 14, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
BootHDR and 1.03.06 firmware

Nice one - it had crossed my mind to try this, mainly to check out the new iplayer, but haven't had the time, and I must admit was mildly worried it might brick it :eek: . I think the reason DLNA doesn't work is more down to the fact I could never persuade it to believe it had an internal hard...
- Drutt
- Post #3
- Nov 4, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Nicesplice problem

It's been a fair old while since I've looked at the nicesplice code, but I'll try and find some time soon to see if I can recreate this problem. It certainly looks like it's down to the size of the recording - it was quite tricky getting support for files of > 4 gigs in, and there may be some...
- Drutt
- Post #23
- Aug 25, 2013
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

I'll have a play and see if I can replicate it, but any more clues appreciated (eg is it only if you remove stuff from the start, is it definitely only HD recordings, does the problem occur if the recording is shrunk beforehand?)
- Drutt
- Post #177
- Dec 9, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

No, I'm afraid I did make a start on that, but never got it working. Should only be a rare problem, as recordings you want to join are nearly always from the same source, but I might look at it again though if there is demand though...
- Drutt
- Post #171
- Dec 6, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

No, it will have just have (almost) 2 minutes of the 2nd channel, linked with the .hmt from the current (ie first) channel. This won't actually play, as the program/channel ids in the hmt won't match those in the stream. This is why you have to wait at least as long back on the first channel...
- Drutt
- Post #166
- Nov 17, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

Exactly right :)
- Drutt
- Post #164
- Nov 16, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

This is expected - when you switch channels it starts overwriting the previous buffer, so how much you get depends on how long you were on the other channel. Yup - obviously make sure you've not left any recordings in there before you do ;)
- Drutt
- Post #162
- Nov 16, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

Worth pointing out as I didn't mention it explicitly above: One of the most useful features it gives to the HD is a limited ability to record 2 channels at once (as long as they are on the same mux), as you can record one, watch another, then grab the tsr. Its good that the 4 main HD channels...
- Drutt
- Post #160
- Nov 16, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Samba and HDR

It is possible, but I noticed the word "mac"... If you are using osx Lion or later, smb to the Humax doesn't work, as Apple's new implementation only supports the latest version of the protocol, and samba on the box doesn't. However you can use the nfs protocol instead - there are some details...
- Drutt
- Post #4
- Nov 16, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
[nicesplice]+[nicesplice-magic-folders] On box video editing

Has anyone had a chance to test tsr grabbing on an hdr yet? Did it work as expected? Any feedback appreciated...
- Drutt
- Post #156
- Nov 15, 2012
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware