Humax PVR query.
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Humax PVR query.
19-07-2013 7:18 PM
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I Suspect the problem may have been due to some over the air update which takes place around 3am.
Anyway what I want to know is there any way of recovering these programs ? Would the way the hard disc on the recorder be formatted in the same way as a standard hard drive, ie FAT 32 or NTSC ? Even if I could extract the programs would I be able to play them ?
Anyone else been faced with this problem ?
Re: Humax PVR query.
19-07-2013 7:37 PM
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It was so slow to boot (sometimes it refused to boot at all) that I bought a Panasonic PVR.
Anyway I dismantled it the Youview thing.
It was mostly fresh air inside but it did have an internal SATA 500GB drive in it.
Haven't had chance to put it in a PC.
It's unlikely that it uses FAT32 or NTFS as they would have to pay a licence fee to Microsoft.
In addition, it's probably loaded with DRM to stop people getting good quality digital recordings off-air.
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Re: Humax PVR query.
19-07-2013 8:03 PM
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Quote from: gleneagles
Anyway what I want to know is there any way of recovering these programs ? Would the way the hard disc on the recorder be formatted in the same way as a standard hard drive, ie FAT 32 or NTSC ? Even if I could extract the programs would I be able to play them ?
Its Linux based so the drive will be ext2/3 formatted. Windows doesn't recognise ext2/3 out the box but there used to be a driver you could install.
Though personally i'd just download a Linux distro and create a bootable disc/USB pen and boot into that to mount/access the drive.
The recordings will be .TS files and will playback fine in wmp, vlc etc.
Re: Humax PVR query.
19-07-2013 11:22 PM
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I cannot find the translation program I used in a quick search of my computer - but if you really need it I will look harder.
Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 6:10 AM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 10:47 AM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 11:42 AM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 12:39 PM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 2:04 PM
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Quote from: ejs Linux might not be able to write to Windows 8 NTFS partition if Win8 was shut down with fast restart mode enabled, in that case you'd need somewhere else to copy the files to.
Why would you need such a thing?
Surely standard/normal restart performs adequately?
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 4:24 PM
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Having weighed up the options I think the best bet is to consider the programs lost rather than try to recover them.
There is an option on the Humax menu which allows a reformat of the drive so will go down that route rather than attempting to connect the PVR hard drive to my computer and ending up with additional problems.
Also possible that the hard drive of the PVR is beginning to fail so if the problem repeats itself over the next few months a new PVR might be in order, after all this one is over 5 years old and most nights we record a number of programs so it has seen some hard service.
Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 8:08 PM
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You might find things like power connectors to be a bit non-standard.
Strangely enough, the one I took out was exactly 4" wide - so it wouldn't fit a standard 3 1/2" bay.
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 8:19 PM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
20-07-2013 9:27 PM
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Re: Humax PVR query.
25-09-2020 1:42 PM
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@gleneagles I have had this happen several times on my FVP-5000T, in fact every time there was a power cut or a glitch in the mains supply. I found that disconnecting the power supply and leaving it a few minutes, then re-connecting so that it re-boots from cold has restored the recordings. I suspect it looses its sector count or logical head position during power glitches. I now have it connected via a small smoothing device.
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