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New member Username: Mjp6492
Sheridan,
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Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 05:24 pm: |
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I have a Dishnetwork 522 DVR. Can anybody tell me how to transfer the recorded movies from the DVR to my computer HD so that I can burn them on to DVD? |
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| Posted on Monday, January 10, 2005 - 04:16 pm: |
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Have you gotten any response to your question? I am wondering the exact same thing. |
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| Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 07:03 pm: |
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Anyone out there know? I would like to know as well. |
New member Username: Pstahljr
Post Number: 10
Registered: Nov-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 02:02 am: |
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You'll probably need something like An ATI All-In-Wonder Card ( http://www.atitech.com/products/radeonx600/aiwx600/index.html ) If you have a Dell they might have Video package adapter card. Basically you're using you PC as a Video recorder and you need special hardware to do it. You can then get software to edit it before you burn it to a DVD. |
Bronze Member Username: Pstahljr
Post Number: 12
Registered: Nov-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 02:35 am: |
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You'll need to get some type of card for your PC like ATI All-In-Wonder Card. It will turn your PC into a DVR. There are also boards that will let you connect Video equipment so you can copy to you HD. Look on the Dell site they have some Multimedia - Video Capture / Editing that might do what you want to do cheeper. |
New member Username: Mjp6492
Sheridan,
OR
USA
Post Number: 2
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 03:34 pm: |
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I appreciate all your responses. I believe I have found a solution. I am ordering it and will advise you if it works. It's rather inexpensive. |
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| Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 07:47 pm: |
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Does anyone know if this would work with comcast digital cable's motorola HD receiver with DVR? I'd really love to be able to upload to my PC and burn DVDs from there. The DVR has an ethernet port and two USB ports. Also, is it possible to do this wirelessly through a linksys network using a USB adaptor? I'm hesitant to add the media card if the dvr does't support it or if comcast has that disabled somehow. |
Bronze Member Username: Pstahljr
Post Number: 13
Registered: Nov-04
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| Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 01:19 pm: |
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raa,
Here's something I came across but I don't know if it will work as the firmware on your box may not be what is required. Here's the link, hope it doesn't break any rules for this forum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=403695
I have a old PC with Window 2000 so I don't have this option.
Pete |
Bronze Member Username: Pstahljr
Post Number: 14
Registered: Nov-04
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| Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 01:21 pm: |
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raa,
Might be some info at the Motorola site also to help you: http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6412.asp
Send Comcast & Motorola a email, they may be able to give you some info.
Pete |
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Bronze Member Username: Pstahljr
Post Number: 15
Registered: Nov-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 12:17 pm: |
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Mike,
Did figure out how to do it yet? |
New member Username: Mjp6492
Sheridan,
OR
USA
Post Number: 3
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 06:17 pm: |
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I recieved the new video capture card today and installed it. It works great for this. It's a V-Stream X-pert DVD maker card. I got it on e-bay brand new for 24.95. It comes with a composite and s-video converter and cyberlink software. Connect your DVR composite RCA output sources to the converter off the card and set your preferences through the software provided. Save the file as mpeg-2 and reload into your DVD burn software. Or burn it directly to your DVD burner. That's it! |
New member Username: Burnn1
Post Number: 1
Registered: Feb-05
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| Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 04:05 pm: |
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So - here's what I got back from Comcast.
Thank you for taking the time to write us.
The cable boxes do not support PC connections at this time.
Thank you for the opportunity to assist you. If you need further
assistance with any of your Comcast services please reply to this email
and we will be happy to assist you. Thank you again for choosing
Comcast and we continue to appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Craig
Comcast Electronic Customer Care - New England
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Bronze Member Username: Lampright
Syracuse,
Utah
USA
Post Number: 46
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:02 pm: |
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If you had a DirecTV Tivo, you could easily hack it, plug it into your computer network, and pull the shows off the hard drive onto your computer and burn them to DVD. It works great with no loss of quality!
Your method with Dish will involve capturing analog video through a capture card and recompressing it into mpeg2 (which it was already in on the DVR hard drive). So, not only is it a major hassle and time consuming, but you're going to loose a lot of the quality in the recompression.
Good luck! |
Bronze Member Username: Lampright
Syracuse,
Utah
USA
Post Number: 47
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:05 pm: |
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If you're going to be doing this a lot, I would highly recommend that you purchase a stand alone Tivo, or a replay tv and use it to record the shows you want on DVD. The easiest would be to buy a standalone Tivo with a built in DVD burner. |
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| Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 10:50 am: |
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I have charter cable. Can I plug the cable into
the ATI "All In wonder card" and record content
to my harddrive?
Dennis? |
New member Username: Jiker
Carson City,
NV
USA
Post Number: 1
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 02:16 pm: |
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I also have the "Dishnetwork 522 DVR". It too has a USB port on the back.
Could you please explain the method "plug it into your computer network"?
Pease
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New member Username: Jiker
Carson City,
NV
USA
Post Number: 2
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 02:18 pm: |
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"If you had a DirecTV Tivo, you could easily hack it, plug it into your computer network, and pull the shows off the hard drive onto your computer and burn them to DVD. It works great with no loss of quality!"
I also have the "Dishnetwork 522 DVR". It too has a USB port on the back.
Could you please explain the method "plug it into your computer network"?
Please
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 08:17 pm: |
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I have the DirecTV Hughes DVR and I was wondering about the same thing, the hack to put DVR Recordings on to my computer. Could you please explain? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:13 pm: |
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Are you aware of if they make one of these cards for notebook pcs? I have a dvr with lots of stuff that I want to put onto DVDS. Does the information have to be saved onto your computer or can you just transfer directly from dvr to dvd burner. Like is there a way to hack into the dvr memory from your computer to transfer to a dvd burner? |
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| Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 06:08 pm: |
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I have a Dish 522 DVR. I would like to empty the information on on my computer. Does anyone know if I can transfer onto a Macintosh - iMac 20" or PowerBook G4 17"? |
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| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 11:24 am: |
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I just attempted to plug the Hard Drive from my DVR-522 into my PC, and it doesn't work... unfortunately. I know that and analog input device for the computer (mac or pc) will allow you to capture audio and video to your computer but, as mantioned above, there is a loss of quality... I also have a 12" powerbook, and an analog external video capture device, such as a 'Dazzle' or the like will work with iMovie or iDVD. Anyone know how to transfer digitally, direct from the dirve? |
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| Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:26 am: |
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Does anyone have any info on backing up the 522 straight to PC? Or is the only known way video capture? |
New member Username: Needhelp
South boston,
Massachusetts
Usa
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Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 06:18 pm: |
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I have a Cyberhome DVD recorder and I was wondering how I go about hooking it up to my Dell Notebook. I am very new at everything that is computers so I am completely blank on how to do it.
Thanks |
New member Username: Needhelp
South boston,
Massachusetts
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| Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 06:18 pm: |
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I have a Cyberhome DVD recorder and I was wondering how I go about hooking it up to my Dell Notebook. I am very new at everything that is computers so I am completely blank on how to do it.
Thanks |
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| Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 08:02 pm: |
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I just got dish network with dvr today and was wondering if there was a possible way to get the recorded shows straight to my pc |
jinzo012 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005 - 03:22 am: |
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What's the USB, and Firewire ports on my DVR for? can't they plug into a Mac/PC? |
Infohog68@yahoo.com Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005 - 08:51 pm: |
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DishPVR508: Can it be used to record from tuners other than its own sattelite tuner? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 10:49 pm: |
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Has anyone had luck connecting their Mac to the 522 via the USB port? It seems that if the unit has a USB port, you shouldn't have to deal with converting from analog.
And, if you can transfer to your computer, can you also transfer back?
I'm asking because the modem on my current unit is broken, and they are sending me a new one, but I want to save my movies. In addition, it would be nice to be able to save the movies back to the new box.
Answers anyone? |
countershane Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 01:16 pm: |
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it is possible that if youtake out the hard drive frm your dvr and connect via ide you can install the hard drive to your computer. though the hard drive appears to be blank, you can use partitionmagic to acess the hidden files on the hard drive and back them up to your pc. you will needa large amount of space for everything as the dish dvr522 has a 120 gb harddrive. i have done extensive research on this. the only problem is that by removing the hard drive from your dvr system you void yor warranty. |
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| Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2005 - 04:21 pm: |
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I have connected my Dish DVR522 Hard Drive to my PC and upon inspection of the drive with partition magic I notice that it is 3 Linux partitions.
I booted into Knoppix 3.6 and the 3 drives are automatically mounted and short cuts are created on the desktop.
The 1st and 2nd partitions seem to be database files for the TV Guide and DVR Recordings I assume.
The 3rd partition however, has all of the recorded files on it. The problem I've run into is all of these files are in a *.tsp file format. Staying in a Linux environment this is no problem as Xine Media Player will open and play these .tsp files with no problem.
But we all seem to want to pull these files into a windows environment in order to edit out commercial and burn our recordings to DVD...
Anyone out there know anything about .tsp files? How to convert them to an editable format?
I hope some of this information helps someone come to a solution to this problem. I’ll continue to research and see if I can come up with anything. It really sucks that Dish won’t let us just plug into the USB port and back up these hard drives…
Thanks!
P.
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| Posted on Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 09:55 pm: |
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I HAVE A DELL COMPUTER DIMENSION 2400.
IT'S ONLY READ DVD+RW DISK. CAN SOMEONE HELP, SO IT CAN READ THE OTHERS |
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| Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 02:56 pm: |
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it seems to me that the best way to do this, rather than burn DVDs would be just to copy the files to an external firewire hard drive - that way, it is all digital, and you never have to remove any hard drives or anything.
my motorola dct6412 HD DVR from comcast has 2 firewire ports, and i've got an external drive... i just can't get my brain around how to move files off the DVR and to an external drive. |
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| Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 03:26 pm: |
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"... i just can't get my brain around how to move files off the DVR and to an external drive."
It can't be done in this manner. the Scientific Atlanta 8300 DVR has a SARA external port which is designed to do just that. The new DCT-6412 Phase III boxes have a SARA port but it is up to the individual cable companies to activate the port via a firmware update.
xvxvxvx |
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| Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 08:07 am: |
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Hey, P.
Thanks for the info about what is on the hard drive. From what I've been reading, a .tsp file is normally a standard MPEG-2 (DVD) file. I am curious if a Windows machine would play it correctly if you just renamed the extension to .mpg.
If not, then I wonder what info would be seen by AVICodec.
I don't have one of these machines to play with - I am researching for a friend. If you get these answers, I would love to hear. I'll also let you know if I find out anytime soon.
kirel |
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| Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 01:27 pm: |
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I have an Scientific Atlanta 8300HD dvr with an sata conn and 2 1394 firewire connections can someone tell me if I can hook that up to my pc ( micron 3.2 ghz with 1 gig of ram ) so I can burn the one program from it i want
Email me at flajrnylvr@yahoo.com |
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| Posted on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:35 am: |
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I also have a 522 DVR & would like to connect it to my PC just for the purpose of copying my DVR contents onto DVD's via my desktop PC DVD burner. If anyone knows what other hardware and/or software I need for my computer to do this - PLEASE let me know! |
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| Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 09:47 am: |
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Does anyone know if you can take the hard drive out of any DVR and connect it to your computer to be used as a regular hard drive? I have 3 damaged DVR units with 120GB drives that I'd like to use in a computer. I have tried by connecting them like any other hard drive, but even with partition magic, I'm told they can't be formatted. Do I need to put these drives in a computer and run a WIndows install on each in order to format? Help? |
New member Username: Mongoosmike
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| Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 08:33 pm: |
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http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/2/115294.html -->
Hi to Countershane and P, I have removed the hard drive, (120GB Seagate) from the DVR and hooked it to our computer and it is not recognized in the BIOS at all. I have tried hooking it up by itself, with another hard drive, tried cable select and all other possibilities and it is simply NOT recognized by the computer. This is on a P-4, Win XP Pro computer. Any info will be appreciated with this. Thank you. <-- |
New member Username: Ucladtv
Cerritos,
California
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| Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 08:00 pm: |
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I have tivo and it is easy, connect a wireless to your home network via the usb port on back of tivo. You can then send anything you record to your hard drive. But you have to use the tivo software. Tivo records in .tivo so you cannot burn it to dvd until you buy some sonic software. but can be done very nicely for under 100 dollars. I personally prefer to record directly to my dvd recorder. |
New member Username: Mongoosmike
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| Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 12:22 am: |
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Sorry, we don't have a network, or a Tivo unit. available.. Countershane said on Wed, Aug 3rd that he connected a DVR drive and the drive could be connected and using Partition Magis you could view the files. BUT first the drive has to be recognized by the computer BIOS.. We're wondering how this is possible if the drive isn't recognozed by the computer.?? Thanks again for the help.. |
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| Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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Actually Countershane said:
"it is possible that if you take out the hard drive frm your dvr and connect via ide you can install the hard drive to your computer. though the hard drive appears to be blank,....."
This indicates it is a theory, and not a very good one at that.
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New member Username: Mongoosmike
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| Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 04:39 pm: |
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Right you are FX, and I forgot to add that another poster said that he had done it,"P", which is the vey next post after Countershanes post. I wonder if we have to download Knoppix 3.6 and if so how do we make a boot disk for Knoppix? I really only want to erase whatever files are on the drive and use it as a regular computer drive. Here is what "P" said: QUOTE >P: I have connected my Dish DVR522 Hard Drive to my PC and upon inspection of the drive with partition magic I notice that it is 3 Linux partitions. I booted into Knoppix 3.6 and the 3 drives are automatically mounted and short cuts are created on the desktop. The 1st and 2nd partitions seem to be database files for the TV Guide and DVR Recordings I assume. The 3rd partition however, has all of the recorded files on it. The problem I've run into is all of these files are in a *.tsp file format. Staying in a Linux environment this is no problem as Xine Media Player will open and play these .tsp files with no problem.]] END QUOTE
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MiniPodMan Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 09:32 pm: |
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Is there any way to connect an ipod with linux on it to the DVR since they are linux partions? Thanks |
New member Username: Mongoosmike
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| Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 10:31 am: |
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I don't have the DVR unit anymore, just the hard drive from the DVR, (Seagate 120GB Drive). I am just trying to get the computer to recognize the hard drive from the DVR, so I can just use the hard drive in the computer. I would think that there should be some software/boot disk to recognize the hard drive I think the computer has to recognize the drive before a boot floppy of some sort would work. I know that Ghost and win 98 boot disk don't recognize the drive when it is hooked up as master, slave or cable select. Still looking for an answer. Thanks |
MiniPodMan Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 05:45 pm: |
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USe linuz you can get Knoppix that will work and you dont need to instal anything. just burn it on a cd or dvd and put it in your comouter when it starts up. |
New member Username: Mongoosmike
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| Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 03:59 pm: |
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Thanks for the info MiniPOdMan. I did download the Knoppix 3.6 but thought it was Linux OS and didn't want to screw up Windows by installing it. OK, when I burn the 750 MB program to a CD, how does that boot up? Doesn't it have to installed on a computer or is it already set up to boot from a CD. Thanks again for the help. |
Tedster Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 03:01 pm: |
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Anyone who has a dish network box, check out
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dishrip/
Seems someone has written special software to extract the video off the dish network hard drive (you will have to mount the hard drive).
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| Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 07:11 pm: |
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I thought I'd post this link for anyone with a DCT-6412 trying to copy to a pc:
http://replayguide.sourceforge.net/dct6412/
xvxvxvx |
posdfgvcxbxchdgfh Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 02:02 am: |
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You can use the s-video port to empty out the recordings but takes awhile |
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| Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 01:39 am: |
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how about from DVR 522 to an external HD then to PC? |
oldgriff Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 01:48 am: |
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Or I even have a tv wonder pro with s-video.Will s-video give hd quality for burning? if not, how close? would that work to get DVD to PC? And Dish told me the USB port was INOPERABLE. If you plug into it, does something come out?! (data) |
IpodMiniMAn Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 07:08 pm: |
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Mike, Linux will just boot of the cd. When using Knopix you dont have to install anything. Also when your done using it you just turn of your computer, take the cd out and you cant tell that u were using knoppix because it boots windows. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 10:22 am: |
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Sorry to bother anyone, but I'm apparently not as computer literate as everyone else here. I want to know how to transfer DVR files to my Gateway laptop. I have DirectTV and whatever TIVO it is that they offer. Anyone spare a few minutes and tell me what to do? Thanks |
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| Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 01:26 pm: |
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Hey, You can just copy the MPEG2 Video to your Computer HD for about $30 and a little research online. You just need the Atmel Atmega128 Card(JTag Interface), a little Cat5 Cable, and a Couple of Programs available for free over the internet; Jeepers, IRD2PC, WinVU Just do some searching.... |
DirecTech Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 01:59 pm: |
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Oh yeah, you'll need a couple of things from RadioShack if you want to protech your DVR from Damage... Just do the (Start with a Search on EMU Cable or WinVU Cable) Research based on What DVR you have, and weather it's Dish or Direct.. Here's a place you can go to get some software...
http://www.dssftp.com/filedownload/generate_php/emulator_files.php
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Doc Audio Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 03:56 pm: |
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