Afraid so. The iplayer stream consists of H.264 video and AAC audio. A DVD Video requires MPEG-2 video and MP2 audio. Both the video and audio have to be re-encoded before they can be used in a standards-compliant DVD Video disc.
So it looks like there is a bit of false advertising on the part of Humax in regard to the HD never needing a retune. I suspected as much.
Sam Widges's idea of importing the tuning database from a known source combined with Black Holes suggestion of using RS as the delivery mechanism sound...
It now looks like we will be away in the 2 weeks when DSO happens in our area. I noticed on the humaxdirect website a claim that the HD never needs re-tuning. I couldn't spot an equivalent claim for the HDR. So here are the questions:
Does the HDR need re-tuning for the DSO?
If the answer to...
Wolfmanii, your Humax *is* seeing the drive in some way because it noticed when you unplugged it, and it refused to boot when you attempted to power up the box with the drive attached. It is just possible that if the external drive wasn't a) in a recognised format or b) unformatted, the Humax...
Assuming you don't have any data you wish to keep on the 160GB drive, you can telnet into the box and try the following (I have not tried it myself):
Power up the Humax with no drive attached.
Plug in the 160GB drive.
Run the command
fdisk -l
If the disk is "healthy", you will see /dev/sdb in...
You can put devices that you want to limit access to behind their own router. This has the added benefit of working even if the device in question is a black box whose internals are not accessible.
I have only had my HDR-FOX T2 for just over a week, so these are early findings.
I too have found using the custom firmware causes audio dropouts, stuttering, loss of HDMI signal, and the machine generally becoming less responsive to inputs from the remote. The longer the machine has been...
Afraid so. The iplayer stream consists of H.264 video and AAC audio. A DVD Video requires MPEG-2 video and MP2 audio. Both the video and audio have to be re-encoded before they can be used in a standards-compliant DVD Video disc.
So it looks like there is a bit of false advertising on the part of Humax in regard to the HD never needing a retune. I suspected as much.
Sam Widges's idea of importing the tuning database from a known source combined with Black Holes suggestion of using RS as the delivery mechanism sound...
It now looks like we will be away in the 2 weeks when DSO happens in our area. I noticed on the humaxdirect website a claim that the HD never needs re-tuning. I couldn't spot an equivalent claim for the HDR. So here are the questions:
Does the HDR need re-tuning for the DSO?
If the answer to...
Wolfmanii, your Humax *is* seeing the drive in some way because it noticed when you unplugged it, and it refused to boot when you attempted to power up the box with the drive attached. It is just possible that if the external drive wasn't a) in a recognised format or b) unformatted, the Humax...
Assuming you don't have any data you wish to keep on the 160GB drive, you can telnet into the box and try the following (I have not tried it myself):
Power up the Humax with no drive attached.
Plug in the 160GB drive.
Run the command
fdisk -l
If the disk is "healthy", you will see /dev/sdb in...
You can put devices that you want to limit access to behind their own router. This has the added benefit of working even if the device in question is a black box whose internals are not accessible.
I have only had my HDR-FOX T2 for just over a week, so these are early findings.
I too have found using the custom firmware causes audio dropouts, stuttering, loss of HDMI signal, and the machine generally becoming less responsive to inputs from the remote. The longer the machine has been...
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