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Your pc will not recognize the RTV hard drive. Many people use Dvarchive ( www.dvarchive.org ) to download shows to a pc-- and then a later time, either stream that show back to the RTV (using Dvarchive)-or watch the show on the pc (using VideoLAN-VLC)
Your pc will not recognize the RTV hard drive. Many people use Dvarchive ( www.dvarchive.org ) to download shows to a pc-- and then a later time, either stream that show back to the RTV (using Dvarchive)-or watch the show on the pc (using VideoLAN-VLC)
hooray, i get to contribute for once!
I had some experience with this. Before I got broadband, i used a crossover cable to hook up my 5040 with DVArchive. It worked fine to transfer the shows, but the replay got cornfused with phoning home for guide updates. It wanted to get the info over ethernet, but I only had dialup. Officially, it is not supposed to be able to use both ethernet and modem at the same time. For a little while, I had my PC set up to dial on demand if anything requested internet access. This was a pain because something was constantly making it dial up. Eventually, I found a post somewhere around here that explained a workaround. Basically, you set up the Replay to use ethernet first, make sure dvarchive works, then change it to modem, and it should work fine.
have fun with it, and wait till you see all the other cool things DVA can do. I bought a couple of Hauppauge MediaMVPs from ebay for $70 apiece, which allow me to see the DVA videos on any TV in the house once they have been downloaded to the PC
I had some experience with this. Before I got broadband, i used a crossover cable to hook up my 5040 with DVArchive. It worked fine to transfer the shows, but the replay got cornfused with phoning home for guide updates. It wanted to get the info over ethernet, but I only had dialup. Officially, it is not supposed to be able to use both ethernet and modem at the same time. For a little while, I had my PC set up to dial on demand if anything requested internet access. This was a pain because something was constantly making it dial up. Eventually, I found a post somewhere around here that explained a workaround. Basically, you set up the Replay to use ethernet first, make sure dvarchive works, then change it to modem, and it should work fine.
have fun with it, and wait till you see all the other cool things DVA can do. I bought a couple of Hauppauge MediaMVPs from ebay for $70 apiece, which allow me to see the DVA videos on any TV in the house once they have been downloaded to the PC
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Stop. Please stop. You CAN use the ethernet port and cross-over cable to take shows off of your Replay via DVArchive. The trick is not to do ANYTHING with the Replay - leave it alone. Let it get guide data via the modem.
You do all the work on the PC side. Set your machine's IP address to 192.168.0.2. Set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. Hook up the cross-connect cable. Reboot your machine, if necessary.
Start DVArchive. It should *find* your Replay. (This works because Replays assign themselves an IP address somewhere in 192.168.0.X if they aren't served one.) You will be able to bring shows down to your PC. (And you can stream shows back).
I used to use this method to bring shows down to my Replay to burn VCDs (I don't have a DVD burner).
-Doug
| Originally posted by btrcp2000 hooray, i get to contribute for once! I had some experience with this. Before I got broadband, i used a crossover cable to hook up my 5040 with DVArchive. It worked fine to transfer the shows, but the replay got cornfused with phoning home for guide updates. It wanted to get the info over ethernet, but I only had dialup. Officially, it is not supposed to be able to use both ethernet and modem at the same time. For a little while, I had my PC set up to dial on demand if anything requested internet access. This was a pain because something was constantly making it dial up. Eventually, I found a post somewhere around here that explained a workaround. Basically, you set up the Replay to use ethernet first, make sure dvarchive works, then change it to modem, and it should work fine. have fun with it, and wait till you see all the other cool things DVA can do. I bought a couple of Hauppauge MediaMVPs from ebay for $70 apiece, which allow me to see the DVA videos on any TV in the house once they have been downloaded to the PC |
You do all the work on the PC side. Set your machine's IP address to 192.168.0.2. Set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. Hook up the cross-connect cable. Reboot your machine, if necessary.
Start DVArchive. It should *find* your Replay. (This works because Replays assign themselves an IP address somewhere in 192.168.0.X if they aren't served one.) You will be able to bring shows down to your PC. (And you can stream shows back).
I used to use this method to bring shows down to my Replay to burn VCDs (I don't have a DVD burner).
-Doug
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The key is NOT to tell the Replay you are making use of the Ethernet port for ANYTHING. Your post reads that the user should set the RTV up for Ethernet updates, then switch to modem. That invites problems, as you mentioned your PC was dialing out all the time. If you don't tell the RTV to use the ethernet port for updates, it won't. You don't need to tell the Replay to make use of the ethernet port in way of in-home sharing, because the Replays were designed for in-home sharing without use of a hub. Two Replays connected via cross-over cable will find each other.
I myself had a problem initially. My first problem was that my PC's NIC card was not configured to be on the same network as the Replay. My second problem was that I was always trying to ping the RTV before I started DVA. Once my PC was on the same network (192.168.0.X) as the the RTV, and I started DVA, it was a piece of cake. I had though I needed to tell DVA the IP of my RTV. That was my Achille's heel. Had I known that they'd find each other automatically, I'd have had DVA up and running proper six months earlier....
My rebuttle to your post (Stop. Please stop) was to tell any readers who may be wishing to do this to NOT change the RTV settings.
-Doug
| Originally posted by btrcp2000 how is that not what i said? my entire point was that it does work, but it did not work as quickly for me as it did for you. i had to use trial and error because nobody around here knew how to do it a year and a half ago. |
I myself had a problem initially. My first problem was that my PC's NIC card was not configured to be on the same network as the Replay. My second problem was that I was always trying to ping the RTV before I started DVA. Once my PC was on the same network (192.168.0.X) as the the RTV, and I started DVA, it was a piece of cake. I had though I needed to tell DVA the IP of my RTV. That was my Achille's heel. Had I known that they'd find each other automatically, I'd have had DVA up and running proper six months earlier....
My rebuttle to your post (Stop. Please stop) was to tell any readers who may be wishing to do this to NOT change the RTV settings.
-Doug
Interesting. I remember having to go back and forth a few times before it started working correctly, but I may have just made the assumption that I needed to change the settings before even attempting anything. Maybe if I had left it alone to begin with, i could have those few days of my life back!
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There used to be a bug where replay would always use the ethernet
port for net connects (as long as the ethernet cable was connected)
even if you had modem configured. Your replay would still atempt to
dialout, but once it established dialup connection, the net connect
requests got directed to the ethernet port. They fixed it sometime
in the last 6 months. This might have accounted for the behavior you
saw.
| Originally posted by btrcp2000 Interesting. I remember having to go back and forth a few times before it started working correctly, but I may have just made the assumption that I needed to change the settings before even attempting anything. Maybe if I had left it alone to begin with, i could have those few days of my life back! |
port for net connects (as long as the ethernet cable was connected)
even if you had modem configured. Your replay would still atempt to
dialout, but once it established dialup connection, the net connect
requests got directed to the ethernet port. They fixed it sometime
in the last 6 months. This might have accounted for the behavior you
saw.
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