I thought the royal wedding would make a good chance to compare ITV1 HD with BBC One HD.

I've put my Humax HDR into non-Freesat mode, done a re-scan, and found 2 ITV1 HD channels.

I've recorded a little bit of each, with the intention of FTP-ing them across to my PC to see which (if either) is 1920x1080. Also recorded a bit of BBC One HD.

Here's the problem: the title of the programme is "The *Royal Wedding*" on all three channels, where the * is a character showing as a little cross. When I use Filezilla FTP client to try to copy them to my PC, it fails. It works fine for everything else (haven't used it for a while, but it works fine on the last thing I recorded earlier in the week), so maybe it's just these special characters in the filename that are causing the issue? Or something else?

The error is...

Status: Connecting to 192.168.0.3:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 220 Welcome to Foxsat HDR FTP Server.
Command: USER humaxftp
Response: 331 Password required for humaxftp.
Command: PASS ****
Response: 230 User logged in, proceed.
Status: Connected
Status: Starting download of /mnt/hd3/Video/The †Royal Wedding‡_20110429_0851.ts
Command: CWD /mnt/hd3/Video
Response: 250 File action is successful. Proceed.
Command: TYPE I
Response: 200 Port command successful
Command: PASV
Response: 502 Command not implemented.
Command: PORT 192,168,0,2,8,106
Response: 200 Port command successful
Command: RETR The †Royal Wedding‡_20110429_0851.ts
Error: Could not read from socket: ECONNRESET - Connection reset by peer
Error: Disconnected from server
Error: File transfer failed


Whereas a normal successful transfer goes like this...

Status: Connecting to 192.168.0.3:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 220 Welcome to Foxsat HDR FTP Server.
Command: USER humaxftp
Response: 331 Password required for humaxftp.
Command: PASS ****
Response: 230 User logged in, proceed.
Status: Connected
Status: Starting download of /mnt/hd3/Video/Hancock's Helpers_20110413_0228.ts
Command: CWD /mnt/hd3/Video
Response: 250 File action is successful. Proceed.
Command: TYPE I
Response: 200 Port command successful
Command: PASV
Response: 502 Command not implemented.
Command: PORT 192,168,0,2,8,111
Response: 200 Port command successful
Command: RETR Hancock's Helpers_20110413_0228.ts
Response: 150 Opening data connection for directory list
Response: 226 Closing data connection.
Status: File transfer successful, transferred 49,614,912 bytes in 9 seconds

Any ideas?

Cheers,
David.

You need to reboot the box while in non-freesat mode to get a recording without encryption.

I get the same David, and yes have booted into non-freesat mode. I'm curious that the BBC HD channel is showing a static screen, are the beeb directing as much available bandwidth to the BBC One HD channel?

edit: if you rename the .ts file and remove the † and ‡ characters the file will transfer.
Last edited by GaseousClay : 29-04-2011 at 10:05

Sounds like the odd characters that required a file rename for AV2HDR to work have returned. The BBC1-HD picture does look pretty good. It will be interesting to find out the bitrate.

My Technisat says

peak just over 11 MBit/s

1440x1088

Automan.

The clip I've just recorded came in at 11.5 MBit/s and it was pretty undemanding stuff. I bet the Beeb have left plenty of headroom so they avoid any embarassing pictures should bit-rate demand go up for any reason.

Did you telnet in to rename them? filezilla ftp won't do it.

Don't think I'll mess with the box now - family won't be too impressed!

Cheers,
David.

No I just right clicked on the file in filezilla and selected rename, then right clicked again to download.