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HUMAX HDR-1000S SKY News Channel only...Cannot Pause, FF or Rew
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HUMAX HDR-1000S SKY News Channel only...Cannot Pause, FF or Rewind
On either Live, or recorded programme.
Jump forwards, and jump backwards not working either, just on Sky News 202
Just happened this morning 14th April 2015
ALL other Channels, and Channels recordings, functions are OK, I can Pause, rewind, and fast forwards, and jump in both directions, on both live & recorded items
I have done a 10 minute power down, still the same on Sky News
The Recording menu shows the correct settings, as before.
And it's the same on 3 Sky News recordings today !!
Is this a devious plot by Sky News to stop fast forwarding, or jumping past adverts ?
I don't think it's a box problem, I think Sky News must be not be transmitting some essential data.
Info shows correct recorded duration, but as above, cannot do anything with it.
Extra:
Noticed that Sky News Video does not appear in the small window when you go to plannings, just some sort of broken circles, other channels show OK
On either Live, or recorded programme.
Jump forwards, and jump backwards not working either, just on Sky News 202
Just happened this morning 14th April 2015
ALL other Channels, and Channels recordings, functions are OK, I can Pause, rewind, and fast forwards, and jump in both directions, on both live & recorded items
I have done a 10 minute power down, still the same on Sky News
The Recording menu shows the correct settings, as before.
And it's the same on 3 Sky News recordings today !!
Is this a devious plot by Sky News to stop fast forwarding, or jumping past adverts ?
I don't think it's a box problem, I think Sky News must be not be transmitting some essential data.
Info shows correct recorded duration, but as above, cannot do anything with it.
Extra:
Noticed that Sky News Video does not appear in the small window when you go to plannings, just some sort of broken circles, other channels show OK
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Same on mine, suspect based on previous experience that its a .nts sidecar file issue.
I've emailed Sky News, for whatever good that will do.
I don't have a clue what a .nts sidecar file issue is !!
And a quick Google leaves me little the wiser !!
Presumably it will be sorted eventually.
One interesting point, even though Sky News Video was watchable, and recordable, when I was going to replay a recording, it said "Listen Now"
When I came out of that, and tried again, all I got was normal Video and Sound playback.
A reason why I back up important recordings on Freeview, and use BBC iPlayer also.
Though I can't with Sky News, we are on a "Freeview Light" local transmitter
Humax recorders use a system that creates additional support files with the same name as the recording file and different file extentions. The full set is xxxx.ts (the video and audio), and up to three support files. It's the xxxx.nts support file that provides the navigation capability (pause/rewind/fast forward etc). Because of the locked down nature of the file system of the freetime boxes you can't actually see these files as you can on earlier Humax Freesat and Freeview boxes.
On a Foxsat-hdr Raydon created software that can create these files for a Foxsat-hdr which allows this box to play back content not recorded on the box. Try Googling AV2HDR.
Incidentally the issue isn't present on a Foxsat-HDR (Generation 1 Freesat), so issue is likely to be at Freesat and only affects G2 Freetime boxes.
Although even on BBC News it seems to take more than one press to get it to pause, so maybe my universal remote is playing up
That is what I get too.
All is good !!
Someone has sorted the problem.
Mini Video window, Pause, Jump, etc all working OK now