MontysEvilTwin
Well-Known Member
A couple of weeks ago I made a failed attempt to install bootHDR on a HD-FOX using the HDR-2000T update file. I've thought about this more and I've seen Drutt posting today (hi Drutt) so I thought I'd create a thread. From reading posts on other threads I think that it may be possible but would need changes to the package and the tool used to extract the software from the HDF file, requiring the time and effort of the people capable of doing this.
I am interested for a couple of reasons. Navigation of the new iPlayer site is really slow and clunky on the HDR-FOX. ChrisDaniels has suggested that this is due to the menu animations, and he is probably right, but I have noticed that after the landing page loads, the page is immediately redrawn, with everything then shifted to the right like an offset is being applied. This could also tax the processor and slow the site navigation so I wonder if the HDR-2000T version would behave any better?
The main reason though is DLNA. There is no native server on the HD-FOX, even in HDR mode. I have read in a thread that the HDR-FOX has a hardware module for DLNA and that is why it doesn't work on the HD-FOX. The 2000T has clearly been designed with cost cutting in mind and it is known that its DLNA server can't serve a protected stream. Does this model have a software based DLNA server? If it does, could it be persuaded to run on the HD-FOX? We also know that if you Foxy the HMT file of a high def. recording on the 2000T, then move the recording to another folder, it is then served as a decrypted stream. Could this be used as a way of automating decryption on the HD-FOX? There are many ifs here but if it does work you could schedule recordings as normal, and use auto-unprotect to clear the 'enc' flags. Then reboot into HDR mode (perhaps at a specific time using a script to change mode) and automatically decrypt via the DLNA server and shut down. Simples (probably not!).
I am interested for a couple of reasons. Navigation of the new iPlayer site is really slow and clunky on the HDR-FOX. ChrisDaniels has suggested that this is due to the menu animations, and he is probably right, but I have noticed that after the landing page loads, the page is immediately redrawn, with everything then shifted to the right like an offset is being applied. This could also tax the processor and slow the site navigation so I wonder if the HDR-2000T version would behave any better?
The main reason though is DLNA. There is no native server on the HD-FOX, even in HDR mode. I have read in a thread that the HDR-FOX has a hardware module for DLNA and that is why it doesn't work on the HD-FOX. The 2000T has clearly been designed with cost cutting in mind and it is known that its DLNA server can't serve a protected stream. Does this model have a software based DLNA server? If it does, could it be persuaded to run on the HD-FOX? We also know that if you Foxy the HMT file of a high def. recording on the 2000T, then move the recording to another folder, it is then served as a decrypted stream. Could this be used as a way of automating decryption on the HD-FOX? There are many ifs here but if it does work you could schedule recordings as normal, and use auto-unprotect to clear the 'enc' flags. Then reboot into HDR mode (perhaps at a specific time using a script to change mode) and automatically decrypt via the DLNA server and shut down. Simples (probably not!).