Black Hole
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How about a drag-n-drop / click-to-select upload facility for the WebIF media browser, to compliment the download facility?
I envisage a button (or something) available on each media browser page (ie for every folder, including My Video) which opens a normal file navigator for files on the computer (I presume that is handled automatically by the browser in combination with the local file manager), and/or allows a file to be drag-n-dropped.
One wrinkle could be whether/how to treat sidecars. Is it possible to automatically pull any existing sidecar files? Don't know.
Background
A couple of years ago I set a friend up with a HDR-FOX when her DVD recorder failed. She's quite tech savvy and likes to "collect", so the CF ability to pull decrypted recordings onto PC and then store on multiple portable drives came into use. However, occasionally she wanted to put one back and couldn't. I had told her that if all else fails, use a UPD in the front socket and OPT+ Copy, but she seemed to be having trouble with even that.
Yesterday I paid a visit, the first time possible since Feb last year (not just because of the various lockdowns), and while I was there had a "service" session with the HDR-FOX (including swapping out the HDD because of increasing errors). "Please show me how to put recordings onto the Humax". I couldn't, I discovered the front USB wasn't working (which also hampered my drive swap, trying to copy across to the replacement drive – the rear USB being occupied by a WiFi dongle).
I pinned down the problem to the cable from the USB socket assembly in the front panel module to the main board: it has to bend back tightly behind the facia and a conductor seemed to have broken, and I hadn't got a spare one with me so effected a "cure" simply by reversing the cable so the broken bit is no longer under strain. It would be better if the cable termination had been fitted on the other side of the PCB, so it faces the main board rather than facing away from it – this is a possible mod, although it might require a little metalwork to provide chassis clearance.
Having got the socket working I turned attention to demonstrating the use of OPT+ Copy, and of course it was very tedious. "This would be a lot quicker by network." "How do I do that?" "By SMB or FTP." So I tried, but it being Win10 I couldn't without having to dig into the computer to enable SMB1 (which I didn't immediately know how to do), and although I managed to get an FTP prompt I didn't know how to use it.
Now, this morning, I realise there could be a better way for unsophisticated CF/WebIF users, which avoids having to use esoteric manipulations of the operating system: WebIF upload. Vote here to indicate interest and motivate those who might be able to provide it.
I envisage a button (or something) available on each media browser page (ie for every folder, including My Video) which opens a normal file navigator for files on the computer (I presume that is handled automatically by the browser in combination with the local file manager), and/or allows a file to be drag-n-dropped.
One wrinkle could be whether/how to treat sidecars. Is it possible to automatically pull any existing sidecar files? Don't know.
Background
A couple of years ago I set a friend up with a HDR-FOX when her DVD recorder failed. She's quite tech savvy and likes to "collect", so the CF ability to pull decrypted recordings onto PC and then store on multiple portable drives came into use. However, occasionally she wanted to put one back and couldn't. I had told her that if all else fails, use a UPD in the front socket and OPT+ Copy, but she seemed to be having trouble with even that.
Yesterday I paid a visit, the first time possible since Feb last year (not just because of the various lockdowns), and while I was there had a "service" session with the HDR-FOX (including swapping out the HDD because of increasing errors). "Please show me how to put recordings onto the Humax". I couldn't, I discovered the front USB wasn't working (which also hampered my drive swap, trying to copy across to the replacement drive – the rear USB being occupied by a WiFi dongle).
I pinned down the problem to the cable from the USB socket assembly in the front panel module to the main board: it has to bend back tightly behind the facia and a conductor seemed to have broken, and I hadn't got a spare one with me so effected a "cure" simply by reversing the cable so the broken bit is no longer under strain. It would be better if the cable termination had been fitted on the other side of the PCB, so it faces the main board rather than facing away from it – this is a possible mod, although it might require a little metalwork to provide chassis clearance.
Having got the socket working I turned attention to demonstrating the use of OPT+ Copy, and of course it was very tedious. "This would be a lot quicker by network." "How do I do that?" "By SMB or FTP." So I tried, but it being Win10 I couldn't without having to dig into the computer to enable SMB1 (which I didn't immediately know how to do), and although I managed to get an FTP prompt I didn't know how to use it.
Now, this morning, I realise there could be a better way for unsophisticated CF/WebIF users, which avoids having to use esoteric manipulations of the operating system: WebIF upload. Vote here to indicate interest and motivate those who might be able to provide it.
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