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Old 14-04-2015, 07:35
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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
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Old 14-04-2015, 09:35
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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
sidecar

Same on mine, suspect based on previous experience that its a .nts sidecar file issue.
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Old 14-04-2015, 10:09
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Thanks for confirming that...

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
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Old 14-04-2015, 10:22
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Thanks for confirming that...

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.
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Old 14-04-2015, 10:53
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The plot thickens - There is now two channels 202 on a Foxsat-hdr. Both on same transponder one classified as Radio and the other as TV. Explains your listen now.
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Old 14-04-2015, 11:03
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I seem to have the same problem on my 1000S. Pressing pause gets the box to jump a bit and it displays the bar that tells you how much of a buffer you have, but it won't pause

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
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Old 14-04-2015, 11:25
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I seem to have the same problem on my 1000S. Pressing pause gets the box to jump a bit and it displays the bar that tells you how much of a buffer you have, but it won't pause
That is what I get too.
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Old 14-04-2015, 15:09
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If you put box into standby and then turn back on again the pause/FF/RW & little window all work as normal.
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Old 14-04-2015, 22:33
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SKY NEWS 10:30PM

All is good !!

Someone has sorted the problem.

Mini Video window, Pause, Jump, etc all working OK now
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