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1. R
  Playback freezing
  
  It is a 1Tb model, but was fine for the first 2-3 months, it's only started doing it in the last 2 weeks. Drive is about 1/4 full.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #17
  
  Feb 15, 2012
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
2. R
  Playback freezing
  
  An update on the original issue - the playback freeze only happens if the hummy is recording at the same time. If no recording is in progress then no freezes.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #15
  
  Feb 15, 2012
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
3. R
  Playback freezing
  
  Well it's standard firmware - I've only had it since December. So just copying to a USB device is sufficient to decrypt the files? If so, why wouldn't copying to my laptop work?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #7
  
  Feb 14, 2012
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
4. R
  Playback freezing
  
  I'm having the same issue as Simon764 :(. So, how do I decrpyt the existing recordings to allow them to be played by a replacement box please?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #5
  
  Feb 14, 2012
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
5. R
  HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle
  
  Thats because the 7612 series DOESN'T work - if you'd read the thread carefully (and mt posts upthread) you'd have seen that I tried it and it failed. you HAVE to get the 7711 series, and they are readily available from Amazon, so you can't have looked too hard ;)...
  rafletcher
  
  Post #141
  
  Jan 12, 2012
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
6. R
  HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle
  
  Dongle should be "plug & play" though you may need a driver on a laptop. Turn off the built-in wireless in your laptop, then plug in the Humax dongle - you should be able to connect to your router with it that way. That way you should be able to identify what it is that is preventing connection...
  rafletcher
  
  Post #137
  
  Dec 8, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
7. R
  Streaming from the HDR-FOX - is there a 4GB limit?
  
  Any relation to the 4GB file size limit for FAT32?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #11
  
  Dec 6, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
8. R
  HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle
  
  That did cross my mind lol - but having played about, it seems I get no better result on screen whether the dongle is in the front or the back, so the white one's at the back of the hummy, and the black ones now in my laptop (crappy Dell card has never worked properly, a "known fault").
  rafletcher
  
  Post #133
  
  Dec 3, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
9. R
  HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle
  
  Well an Edimax EW-7612UAn DIDN'T work - bought because it was black, rather than the white EW-7711UAn as I wanted to fit it to the front, not back, of the Humax. So I had to stick the EW-7711UAn I already had in the back (white aerial on the front would have looked naff) and it worked straight...
  rafletcher
  
  Post #131
  
  Dec 3, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
10. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  Well conversion to .ts seems the simplest and fastest. And file names are carried over too, which is good. I haven't tried simple renaming yet.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #13
  
  Dec 1, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
11. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  No I didn't - but I can try that I guess - what is the normal Humax file extension?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #10
  
  Nov 30, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
12. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  Well, a summary. Conversion to Mpeg4 (as suggested to me on another forum) does indeed work - but the conversion (in Mpeg Streamclip) takes 4x real time!. However conversionds to MPEG and TS and TSVID all take 2-3 minutes each for a film. And MPEG and TS both play, TSVID not recognised.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #8
  
  Nov 30, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
13. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  There's also an option (slightly slower than the convert to TS but still a lot quicker than convertiung to MPEG) to convert to VID file format. I'll give both a try and see what happens.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #7
  
  Nov 28, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
14. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  Ok, well the conversion to MP4 is slooooooow - 8 hrs for a 2'45" recording. But it will also convert to TS format - and that takes about 30sec / hour. I'll experiment and see if the TS file conversion will play. Unless anyone here hah tried it?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #5
  
  Nov 28, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
15. R
  Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy
  
  I've searched, but can't find the answer :-) though I expect it's here somewhere! I'm migrating from a toppy to a hummy. I've exported my .REC files from the toppy (using Altair) to my laptop and will be converting them to another format for the hummy to play. 1) What format should I convert...
  rafletcher
  
  Thread
  
  Nov 27, 2011
  
  Replies: 18
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
16. R
  Accurate Recording (AR), Padding, and Lost Series Links
  
  Yep - after all that's what I've been doing for theast 5 yearsith the toppy :-) although I agree a series link is a much better thing as it compensates for the vagaries of scheduling.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #14
  
  Nov 26, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
17. R
  Accurate Recording (AR), Padding, and Lost Series Links
  
  As far as series recording is concerned when you're away, can you not just set a "weekly" recurring recording?
  rafletcher
  
  Post #12
  
  Nov 26, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
18. R
  CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection
  
  Thanks Brian, my thinking too.
  rafletcher
  
  Post #6
  
  Nov 26, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
19. R
  CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection
  
  Thanks guys - but would an auto-switch work? Stupid question I know, but how would it know which input to prioritise to the output? I've a simple passive 2-into-1 scart connector that I tried , and when the DVD was switched on the TV picture went haywire and wouldn't play back the DVD output...
  rafletcher
  
  Post #4
  
  Nov 26, 2011
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
20. R
  CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection
  
  I've replaced my Toppy with a FOX T2 Humax, but have run into a problem connecting it up with the TV and DVD. With the Toppy it was easy - it has a scart pass-through, so it was DVD>scart>Toppy>scart>TV. I should mention that the TV is an old CRT one, with 1 scart and 1 co-ax input. The DVD is...
  rafletcher
  
  Thread
  
  Nov 26, 2011
  
  Replies: 6
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder

R
Playback freezing

It is a 1Tb model, but was fine for the first 2-3 months, it's only started doing it in the last 2 weeks. Drive is about 1/4 full.
- rafletcher
- Post #17
- Feb 15, 2012
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Playback freezing

An update on the original issue - the playback freeze only happens if the hummy is recording at the same time. If no recording is in progress then no freezes.
- rafletcher
- Post #15
- Feb 15, 2012
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Playback freezing

Well it's standard firmware - I've only had it since December. So just copying to a USB device is sufficient to decrypt the files? If so, why wouldn't copying to my laptop work?
- rafletcher
- Post #7
- Feb 14, 2012
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Playback freezing

I'm having the same issue as Simon764 :(. So, how do I decrpyt the existing recordings to allow them to be played by a replacement box please?
- rafletcher
- Post #5
- Feb 14, 2012
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle

Thats because the 7612 series DOESN'T work - if you'd read the thread carefully (and mt posts upthread) you'd have seen that I tried it and it failed. you HAVE to get the 7711 series, and they are readily available from Amazon, so you can't have looked too hard ;)...
- rafletcher
- Post #141
- Jan 12, 2012
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle

Dongle should be "plug & play" though you may need a driver on a laptop. Turn off the built-in wireless in your laptop, then plug in the Humax dongle - you should be able to connect to your router with it that way. That way you should be able to identify what it is that is preventing connection...
- rafletcher
- Post #137
- Dec 8, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Streaming from the HDR-FOX - is there a 4GB limit?

Any relation to the 4GB file size limit for FAT32?
- rafletcher
- Post #11
- Dec 6, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle

That did cross my mind lol - but having played about, it seems I get no better result on screen whether the dongle is in the front or the back, so the white one's at the back of the hummy, and the black ones now in my laptop (crappy Dell card has never worked properly, a "known fault").
- rafletcher
- Post #133
- Dec 3, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
HDR Fox T2 Wireless Dongle

Well an Edimax EW-7612UAn DIDN'T work - bought because it was black, rather than the white EW-7711UAn as I wanted to fit it to the front, not back, of the Humax. So I had to stick the EW-7711UAn I already had in the back (white aerial on the front would have looked naff) and it worked straight...
- rafletcher
- Post #131
- Dec 3, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

Well conversion to .ts seems the simplest and fastest. And file names are carried over too, which is good. I haven't tried simple renaming yet.
- rafletcher
- Post #13
- Dec 1, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

No I didn't - but I can try that I guess - what is the normal Humax file extension?
- rafletcher
- Post #10
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

Well, a summary. Conversion to Mpeg4 (as suggested to me on another forum) does indeed work - but the conversion (in Mpeg Streamclip) takes 4x real time!. However conversionds to MPEG and TS and TSVID all take 2-3 minutes each for a film. And MPEG and TS both play, TSVID not recognised.
- rafletcher
- Post #8
- Nov 30, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

There's also an option (slightly slower than the convert to TS but still a lot quicker than convertiung to MPEG) to convert to VID file format. I'll give both a try and see what happens.
- rafletcher
- Post #7
- Nov 28, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

Ok, well the conversion to MP4 is slooooooow - 8 hrs for a 2'45" recording. But it will also convert to TS format - and that takes about 30sec / hour. I'll experiment and see if the TS file conversion will play. Unless anyone here hah tried it?
- rafletcher
- Post #5
- Nov 28, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Converting Toppy .REC files and uploading them to Hummy

I've searched, but can't find the answer :-) though I expect it's here somewhere! I'm migrating from a toppy to a hummy. I've exported my .REC files from the toppy (using Altair) to my laptop and will be converting them to another format for the hummy to play. 1) What format should I convert...
- rafletcher
- Thread
- Nov 27, 2011
- Replies: 18
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Accurate Recording (AR), Padding, and Lost Series Links

Yep - after all that's what I've been doing for theast 5 yearsith the toppy :-) although I agree a series link is a much better thing as it compensates for the vagaries of scheduling.
- rafletcher
- Post #14
- Nov 26, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
Accurate Recording (AR), Padding, and Lost Series Links

As far as series recording is concerned when you're away, can you not just set a "weekly" recurring recording?
- rafletcher
- Post #12
- Nov 26, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection

Thanks Brian, my thinking too.
- rafletcher
- Post #6
- Nov 26, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection

Thanks guys - but would an auto-switch work? Stupid question I know, but how would it know which input to prioritise to the output? I've a simple passive 2-into-1 scart connector that I tried , and when the DVD was switched on the TV picture went haywire and wouldn't play back the DVD output...
- rafletcher
- Post #4
- Nov 26, 2011
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
R
CRT TV, DVD and T2 connection

I've replaced my Toppy with a FOX T2 Humax, but have run into a problem connecting it up with the TV and DVD. With the Toppy it was easy - it has a scart pass-through, so it was DVD>scart>Toppy>scart>TV. I should mention that the TV is an old CRT one, with 1 scart and 1 co-ax input. The DVD is...
- rafletcher
- Thread
- Nov 26, 2011
- Replies: 6
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder

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