9150T timeshift issues.
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I've done some searching, but forgive me if I've not searched carefully enough. I've seen buffer issues with all versions of the Humax but none quite like this one
(2nd Humax - first developed a hardware fault at 2 years 1 month old :-( )
Sometimes when we got to use the buffer to pause or rewind what we are currently watching (maybe to record the buffer, other times just to rewatch something due to a distraction) there is a chunk missing between the last moment we watched and around half an hour back. I find this difficult to reproduce at will. It seems like we need to have a scheduled recording start sometime after the current channel has been selected.
Needless to say the HDD is about 80% full, so a re-format is a bit of a radical option, particularly if it isn't going to fix the issue, but my reading of this forum is that buffer issues are normally fixed by this.
If a reformat is the only hope, other than sending the box back and losing all the programs anyway, then as a supplementary question - (has downloading the TS files to a laptop got any more reliable/faster? I've still got some software for burning DVDs from Humax files.) Strike that, I've just remembered the 9150 doesn't have a USB socket, so I guess the only answer is to dub to the DVD recorder?
Any thoughts very welcome
(2nd Humax - first developed a hardware fault at 2 years 1 month old :-( )
Sometimes when we got to use the buffer to pause or rewind what we are currently watching (maybe to record the buffer, other times just to rewatch something due to a distraction) there is a chunk missing between the last moment we watched and around half an hour back. I find this difficult to reproduce at will. It seems like we need to have a scheduled recording start sometime after the current channel has been selected.
Needless to say the HDD is about 80% full, so a re-format is a bit of a radical option, particularly if it isn't going to fix the issue, but my reading of this forum is that buffer issues are normally fixed by this.
If a reformat is the only hope, other than sending the box back and losing all the programs anyway, then as a supplementary question - (has downloading the TS files to a laptop got any more reliable/faster? I've still got some software for burning DVDs from Humax files.) Strike that, I've just remembered the 9150 doesn't have a USB socket, so I guess the only answer is to dub to the DVD recorder?
Any thoughts very welcome
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The PC will require a SATA interface. Either onboard, or via a USB/SATA adapter.
There are utilities written (for the PVR9200 HDD but apparently suitable for the 9150/9300 too) to transfer recorded programmes to the PC, and to repair disk errors. One of the features is a repair of the timeslip buffer area (IIRC this requires that the reserved 8GB/5% of HDD space be free).
I'd be happy to have a go at that if it didn't invalidate the warranty, but I'm guessing there are seals to break. I did so after my 9200 died, and put a new hdd in, but it didn't solve the problem. It's still got over a year to run.
So if anyone experences the same buffer issue, reformating the hard disk solves the problem