Just a couple of comments on manuals:
1) Many manuals are very poorly written and uninformative.
2) I, like a number of others am dyslexic and find densley written material such as a manual difficult to follow. Fortunately many of us are good practically, but are more likely to seek other avenues of help where necessary. Hence the seemingly obvious questions in forums or to tech support.
Transferring programs from the Toppy:
1) Download Altair, install and run it. Plug the USB connection in and make sure that the Toppy is on. The Altair window is like an old style ftp program (i.e. ws_ftp) with two panes of directory listings, toppy on the left and pc on the right.
2) Go into the 'Data Files' folder on the Toppy, highlight the file that you wish to transfer. Select the target folder on the pc and press the arrow in between the panes to transfer the file.
3) You can play the .rec files directly with Elecard MPEG Player.
4) If you want to play the files in WMP or Winamp or similar or want to burn to DVD, the first step is to create an mpeg file.
You can use either Project X (create an .m2p file and rename it to .mpg) or VideoReDo to do this but it is useful to then run the resulting file through PVAStrumento to remove any errors in the file. Both Project X and VideoReDo can edit the file to remove tv ads. There is a problem with the audio stream in CH4 and possibly some other channels programmes. VideoReDo selects the correct stream automatically, but Project X needs to be told which stream to use for CH4 - otherwise you will get a silent recording.
The mpeg files can be burned t dvd with many dvd burning apps.
There's lots more on
www.toppy.org.uk
