Humax PVR output to PC

handtight

Have a Humax satellite PVR about a year old. Anyone know if its possible to output programmes saved on the hard drive to laptop?
Appreciate any advice on this I'm not too much of a techie:(

evilivor

handtight wrote: »

Have a Humax satellite PVR about a year old. Anyone know if its possible to output programmes saved on the hard drive to laptop?
Appreciate any advice on this I'm not too much of a techie:(

It's quite simple if you use an external drive or USB stick - the instructions seem complicated but if you do it once you'll see how easy it is hen.

Connect the external drive or USB stick to one of the USB ports, there's one on the front, one on the rear. If it is a valid format you'll get a message "USB device has been connected", if not, you'll have to reformat the drive/stick

When in the Media list, pressing the Opt+ button will bring up a plate with left and right panes. The right shows the USB device, and the left shows the internal drive. Move the cursor to the right pane and select the item marked sda1. Pressing OK will take you into the device and the HDR will show you a list of recordings already there. If there are none, it will be empty. Back to the left hand pane, select the recording (or multiple recordings, using the Edit Mode, press the Yellow button and press OK to tick items) you wish to transfer. If the HDR recognises it can transfer the recording(s) to the destination on the right pane, it will show the Green button 'Copy' function. Press Green to transfer the recording.

IrishHomer

handtight wrote: »

Have a Humax satellite PVR about a year old. Anyone know if its possible to output programmes saved on the hard drive to laptop?
Appreciate any advice on this I'm not too much of a techie:(

Did your Humax come with a manual?


If it did i think you should read it.

kbell

Great reply.....:rolleyes:

evilivor

IrishHomer wrote: »

Did your Humax come with a manual?


If it did i think you should read it.

In fairness, the manual is terrible. Really terrible.

handtight

IrishHomer wrote: »

Did your Humax come with a manual?


If it did i think you should read it.

If the manual helps on this wouldn't mind seeing one. I inherited the humax minus the manual

handtight

evilivor wrote: »

It's quite simple if you use an external drive or USB stick - the instructions seem complicated but if you do it once you'll see how easy it is hen.

Connect the external drive or USB stick to one of the USB ports, there's one on the front, one on the rear. If it is a valid format you'll get a message "USB device has been connected", if not, you'll have to reformat the drive/stick

When in the Media list, pressing the Opt+ button will bring up a plate with left and right panes. The right shows the USB device, and the left shows the internal drive. Move the cursor to the right pane and select the item marked sda1. Pressing OK will take you into the device and the HDR will show you a list of recordings already there. If there are none, it will be empty. Back to the left hand pane, select the recording (or multiple recordings, using the Edit Mode, press the Yellow button and press OK to tick items) you wish to transfer. If the HDR recognises it can transfer the recording(s) to the destination on the right pane, it will show the Green button 'Copy' function. Press Green to transfer the recording.

Evilivor
Thanks for taking the time that's a great explanation. Will give it a go now hopefully reformatting won't be necessary.

Trevord

TIP: Some people report this to work fine for a period and then all of a sudden it seem they have difficulty copying material.

It seems that if you are copying to an external drive the Humax sometimes still sees deleted files on the external drive and as a result sometimes thinks that there is no space available on the external drive.

This happended to me a few months back.

Solution is to defrag the external drive.

I'm not sure if this problem arises with USB drives, but I haven't experienced it.

Owenw

handtight wrote: »

If the manual helps on this wouldn't mind seeing one. I inherited the humax minus the manual

Seek and ye shall find

Its pretty bad (written be the designers of the shoddy remote maybe? :P) but handy to have nonetheless.