Anyone help, please? What vid formats will play on the foxsat hdr, from hdd or usb? Cheap dvd players will recognise wmvs and movs etc., but I can't seem to get the media list to see anything on a drive or stick at all. It sees mp3s and jpgs, but no vid formats.

If it only plays 'native', is there any software that will convert things to a .ts and the two associated files?

Yes it's called AV2HDR

http://hummy.tv/forum/index.php?thre...load-links.50/

thanks graham - do I take it that the hdr won't read any other formats then?

There has to be 3 files, the .ts (mpeg2 or h264 transport stream file) and two support files .hmt and .nts

Extract from the help file

The primary role of AV2HDR is to provide the means to allow video, not originally recorded on the Humax Foxsat HDR, to be imported onto the HDR's hard disk.


In order to achieve this, it must remux non-native video into the format recognised by the HDR, as well as generate the two additional support files required for HDR playback.


You can incidentally replay directly from the usb drive, you don't have to upload the material if you don't need to.

I use Format Factory to convert .ts files so I can play them on my Creative Labs Zen X-Fi2

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Thanks graham, I downloaded av2hdr and Any Video Convertor to get the files to mpegs - all painless. Will try on the hdr later.

Ok - tried a test file on the HDR and it ran ok, but 2 problems: 1/ the picture is squashed - so I'll need to pay attention to the input v output sizes. What I'm seeing is like 16:9 squeezed into 4:3, full screen.
2/ The audio is way behind the video - maybe 2-3 seconds.

(original was .rm, converted to mpegII with Any Video Convertor, then to .ts with AV2HDR)

Not tried this but it's worth a punt

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/converte...-converter.htm

If you convert to DVD, join the .vob's into a single file using tsmuxergui then AV2HDR will open the combined vob file.

thanks - will try that route.