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Old 08-06-2009, 18:12
Nick123
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I've found a good way to move Freesat recordings to a network, then play them back on a PC in another room. Packard Bell make a network HDD (Packard Bell NetStore) which also has a USB socket, enabling the contents of the disk to be read/written to either via the network or via a USB port. Many network HDD's have USB connectivity, but usually it's the other way round, i.e. you can plug in an external USB memory stick to be able to load something onto the HDD, but you can't use it as a read/write port to a PC. I've placed the HDD next to the Freesat + box and fortunately I have an ethernet connection in the vicinity to connect it also to my home LAN.
Now transfer is dead easy:
1. plug in the USB port of the NetStore HDD to the Freesat box, and I can save anything on the Freesat to the NetStore HDD.
2. unplug the USB and the contents of the Netstore HDD can be accessed from any of the PC's on my network. (I use VLC to play the .ts files). Unfortunately you lose network connectivity if you leave the USB plugged in, but it's no big deal.
I've formatted part of the NetStore disk in ext3 to save BBCHD content >4Gb; the network can't see the ext3 partition, but anyway the recordings are encrypted so only playable by transferring them back to the PVR.

If & when BBCHD decide to drop encryption on some programme content, or if in the future I decide to record something in HD manually in non-Freesat mode, then does anyone know how to make ext3 partitions visible to Windows PC's on a network? I already have a really useful program called Ext2fsd installed on one PC which allows me to read a local ext3 partition in Windows, but it doesn't work for networked drives.
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Old 08-06-2009, 20:34
swedish cook
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Heres hoping that someone in the project team has a little sanity and they've put the FTP capability of the iCord cousin product into the next firmware update - then we could automate transfers. It is running linux when all said and done, it must have been more effort to leave it out than leave it in !
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