[gregavi]

I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300 HD box that I have added an external SATA drive to increase the storage capacity. Does anybody know if I can plug this drive into the WD HD Media player and view these files in HD on a HD display? (Hi-Def DLP TV) My guess is, no. If not, can the files from the SA drive be converted to a supported file in order for it to work with the WD HD Media Player? The WD has many supporting file formats. I'm looking for a way to archive content of this external drive while preserving HD. Adding the extra drive to the SA box is fine for increasing it's capacity, but not good for archiving. If and when the SA box fails, the files on the external drive are useless since they will not be accessible to a different SA box. I have thought about recording the content onto DVD-R, but that has 2 drawbacks. It is very time consuming and it will not preserve HD quality. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[whiteboy714]



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Originally Posted by gregavi /forum/post/16891222


I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300 HD box that I have added an external SATA drive to increase the storage capacity. Does anybody know if I can plug this drive into the WD HD Media player and view these files in HD on a HD display? (Hi-Def DLP TV) My guess is, no. If not, can the files from the SA drive be converted to a supported file in order for it to work with the WD HD Media Player? The WD has many supporting file formats. I'm looking for a way to archive content of this external drive while preserving HD. Adding the extra drive to the SA box is fine for increasing it's capacity, but not good for archiving. If and when the SA box fails, the files on the external drive are useless since they will not be accessible to a different SA box. I have thought about recording the content onto DVD-R, but that has 2 drawbacks. It is very time consuming and it will not preserve HD quality. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Well the big question is are the files encrypted which most are on a dvr? Have you tried plugging that hard drive into a pc and playing the files? If they wont play on a pc then they definitely wont play on a wdtv.


There could be some way to break the encryption and then convert them but thats gonna take some research by you.


It would sure help if you would say the exact format this thing records to.

 

[gregavi]

Thanks for the reply WB717. I don't know what the format is. I have connected the drive to my PC and after windows states it found new hardware, there was no trace of the drive at all. It must be that it is formatted for Linux? I know TiVo uses Linux, so SA using it is probable. This doesn't seem like an task. Any other ideas, anybody?

 

[warunek]

Started looking into this about 3 years ago when my first 8300 HD crashed and lost some files. I'll give the Mac and PC versions. Copy freely shows can be transferred through firewire ports on the 8300 to a Mac using the AVC VideoCAp app. Most of my content is HD and these m2ts files playback identical to original broadcast with WDTV and several other media players I have. More recently, copy once can be transferred with HD PVR Capture software for Mac and a Hauppauge HD PVR box (component). With a PC, the Hauppauge box with enclosed software will work. I edit commercials with VideoeReDo.