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      custom firmware and xbmc

      Thanks very much for that Kev_w. It's not something I need to do as I have a HTPC running XBMC as my main movie viewing medium, but it's handy to have the knowledge. I use handbrake on an almost daily basis - it's great for converting and compressing .ts files off the Humax. Might give it a try...
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      Replacement Hard Disk Recommendations

      The 2TB ST2000VM003 is available from ebuyer.com for £77.42. Postage is free if you take the 5 working day delivery option. I've used Ebuyer for years, bought everything from laptops to batteries from them and never had a problem. Their returns policy is excellent. (I have no connection with...
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      custom firmware and xbmc

      Ah, OK thanks - mine are x264 encodes containing MPEG4 video and AC3 audio. There is talk of a video transcoder facility being added to the XBMC uPnP server, that might do the trick. At the moment, at least as far as my experiments go, the Humax won't even see a .mkv file over DLNA , even if...
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      custom firmware and xbmc

      Yes, but as I said, it's not much use unless your media files are in a format that the Humax will play. All my films and TV shows are .mkvs so it's no use to me.
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      custom firmware and xbmc

      Movies won't play for me in XBMC unless I decrypt them. That's presumably because I'm accessing them directly from the hard drive on the Humax via Samba rather than over DLNA. Ergo, can't answer your DLNA question as I've never tried it. I will give it a try... edit: tried it - HiDef files...
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      custom firmware and xbmc

      Not sure why you'd want to do that. You can mount remote drives onto the Humax if you're wanting to play movies using the Humax off a drive on another machine on your network, but unlike XBMC, which will play just about anything you throw at it, the Humax is limited with regard to what type of...
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      custom firmware and xbmc

      I can stream both standard and high definition recordings from my Humax to XBMC. You will need to install the custom firmware to remove the protection flag from HD recordings and to decrypt both SD and HD recordings. You will also need to install the Samba package so that you can set up the...
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      lost connection

      You could try rebooting your router. I've found with my previous BT homehub and my current Virginmedia superhub that they sometimes lose connection with items on my home network. Having mixed XP, Windows 7, Android, Apple and Linux machines, wired and wireless, on the same network appears to...
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      will HDR-Fox-T2 connect to a wifi network without DHCP

      Me too - the last three routers I've had offered this facility. There may be routers out there that don't, but I'd be happy to wager that the vast majority of current models do.
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      Two shrunk files in main video folder

      This hasn't happened in the past; I used the shrink facility this morning on a file and now have two files in the main video folder, both the same size, one titled Lights in the Dusk_20130718_1101-1374148091.ts (1.10 GiB) and one titled Lights in the Dusk_20130718_1101_shrunk.ts (1.10...
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      Best/quickest way of transfering recordings to a PC?

      Yep, whatever works for you... there are usually two or three ways of doing something with computers. I maintain a website and use Filezilla for that. It's definitely one of the best FTP clients out there. Funny, I've never though to use it within a home network.
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      Best/quickest way of transfering recordings to a PC?

      I have found simply dragging and dropping files in Windows Explorer works with the least hassle for me. An average size SD film transfers from my Humax to my laptop in about 4 minutes. The Humax is wired direct to my network hub, the laptop is wireless. Of course you need to enable samba in the...
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Overscan doesn't give the best quality picture, especially at HD resolutions. In the days of scan coils and CRTs overscan was necessary because analogue TVs needed to be individually set up. Modern flat panel displays and HDMI make 1:1 pixel mapping possible and it provides the best possible...
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I did, a couple of weeks ago -- no reply.
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I'm aware of 'stretch 4:3' which is a technique used to fill a 16:9 screen when displaying a 4:3 image by progressively stretching the image at the edges (and is very apparent and looks dreadful). That's not what I'm observing - occasionally BBC News 24 broadcasts what appears to be a 16:9...
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I haven't tried the test card because it's irrelevant to my original observation - that the picture is occasionally distorted when BBC News 24 transmits in slightly less than 16:9 and the Humax Display Format is set to 'Auto'. I know what I'm seeing - I trained as a TV engineer after I left...
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      As I said previously - it is most apparent on the BBC News Channel and doesn't happen all the time. The picture is most often 16:9, but sometimes it's a little less horizontally - there are thin black bars on the sides. That's when the non-linearity and the squished centre occurs if display...
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      It varies from channel to channel. Try Channel 80 - BBC News, set Display Format to auto and look closely at the newscaster's face when they are mid-screen. Does it look a bit pinched?
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Not exactly - it also slightly compresses the picture horizontally in the middle. And I don't believe this "non-linearity in the image should be ascribed to the TV" as you have previously asserted because the phenomenon isn't apparent on my Tivo box or the TV's built-in freeview tuner.
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      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Coming back to the slight squishing effect in the middle of the picture and stretching at the edges I mentioned above - the BBC News Channel pictures on my Virgin Tivo box, and on the built-in Freeview tuner in my Panasonic plasma TV, sometimes have thin black bars on each side. The aspect ratio...
    1. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      Thanks very much for that Kev_w. It's not something I need to do as I have a HTPC running XBMC as my main movie viewing medium, but it's handy to have the knowledge. I use handbrake on an almost daily basis - it's great for converting and compressing .ts files off the Humax. Might give it a try...
    2. S

      Replacement Hard Disk Recommendations

      The 2TB ST2000VM003 is available from ebuyer.com for £77.42. Postage is free if you take the 5 working day delivery option. I've used Ebuyer for years, bought everything from laptops to batteries from them and never had a problem. Their returns policy is excellent. (I have no connection with...
    3. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      Ah, OK thanks - mine are x264 encodes containing MPEG4 video and AC3 audio. There is talk of a video transcoder facility being added to the XBMC uPnP server, that might do the trick. At the moment, at least as far as my experiments go, the Humax won't even see a .mkv file over DLNA , even if...
    4. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      Yes, but as I said, it's not much use unless your media files are in a format that the Humax will play. All my films and TV shows are .mkvs so it's no use to me.
    5. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      Movies won't play for me in XBMC unless I decrypt them. That's presumably because I'm accessing them directly from the hard drive on the Humax via Samba rather than over DLNA. Ergo, can't answer your DLNA question as I've never tried it. I will give it a try... edit: tried it - HiDef files...
    6. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      Not sure why you'd want to do that. You can mount remote drives onto the Humax if you're wanting to play movies using the Humax off a drive on another machine on your network, but unlike XBMC, which will play just about anything you throw at it, the Humax is limited with regard to what type of...
    7. S

      custom firmware and xbmc

      I can stream both standard and high definition recordings from my Humax to XBMC. You will need to install the custom firmware to remove the protection flag from HD recordings and to decrypt both SD and HD recordings. You will also need to install the Samba package so that you can set up the...
    8. S

      lost connection

      You could try rebooting your router. I've found with my previous BT homehub and my current Virginmedia superhub that they sometimes lose connection with items on my home network. Having mixed XP, Windows 7, Android, Apple and Linux machines, wired and wireless, on the same network appears to...
    9. S

      will HDR-Fox-T2 connect to a wifi network without DHCP

      Me too - the last three routers I've had offered this facility. There may be routers out there that don't, but I'd be happy to wager that the vast majority of current models do.
    10. S

      Two shrunk files in main video folder

      This hasn't happened in the past; I used the shrink facility this morning on a file and now have two files in the main video folder, both the same size, one titled Lights in the Dusk_20130718_1101-1374148091.ts (1.10 GiB) and one titled Lights in the Dusk_20130718_1101_shrunk.ts (1.10...
    11. S

      Best/quickest way of transfering recordings to a PC?

      Yep, whatever works for you... there are usually two or three ways of doing something with computers. I maintain a website and use Filezilla for that. It's definitely one of the best FTP clients out there. Funny, I've never though to use it within a home network.
    12. S

      Best/quickest way of transfering recordings to a PC?

      I have found simply dragging and dropping files in Windows Explorer works with the least hassle for me. An average size SD film transfers from my Humax to my laptop in about 4 minutes. The Humax is wired direct to my network hub, the laptop is wireless. Of course you need to enable samba in the...
    13. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Overscan doesn't give the best quality picture, especially at HD resolutions. In the days of scan coils and CRTs overscan was necessary because analogue TVs needed to be individually set up. Modern flat panel displays and HDMI make 1:1 pixel mapping possible and it provides the best possible...
    14. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I did, a couple of weeks ago -- no reply.
    15. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I'm aware of 'stretch 4:3' which is a technique used to fill a 16:9 screen when displaying a 4:3 image by progressively stretching the image at the edges (and is very apparent and looks dreadful). That's not what I'm observing - occasionally BBC News 24 broadcasts what appears to be a 16:9...
    16. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      I haven't tried the test card because it's irrelevant to my original observation - that the picture is occasionally distorted when BBC News 24 transmits in slightly less than 16:9 and the Humax Display Format is set to 'Auto'. I know what I'm seeing - I trained as a TV engineer after I left...
    17. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      As I said previously - it is most apparent on the BBC News Channel and doesn't happen all the time. The picture is most often 16:9, but sometimes it's a little less horizontally - there are thin black bars on the sides. That's when the non-linearity and the squished centre occurs if display...
    18. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      It varies from channel to channel. Try Channel 80 - BBC News, set Display Format to auto and look closely at the newscaster's face when they are mid-screen. Does it look a bit pinched?
    19. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Not exactly - it also slightly compresses the picture horizontally in the middle. And I don't believe this "non-linearity in the image should be ascribed to the TV" as you have previously asserted because the phenomenon isn't apparent on my Tivo box or the TV's built-in freeview tuner.
    20. S

      Aspects of aspect ratio

      Coming back to the slight squishing effect in the middle of the picture and stretching at the edges I mentioned above - the BBC News Channel pictures on my Virgin Tivo box, and on the built-in Freeview tuner in my Panasonic plasma TV, sometimes have thin black bars on each side. The aspect ratio...
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