Stoneyginger
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Registered: 25th Jan 01
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not a big deal because i have upgraded to sky+HD however i took the hard drive out of the old unit after the red light started flickering. Have put it into my pc as an internal slave hard drive, its a FAT system i know but does anyone know any software packages that would allow me to access what i had on the hard drive and convert them into mpeg2 or such like format? im also considering trying to fix the power board on the sky+ white box so i can have it in my bedroom.
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Doug
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I have no idea if it is possible but could you mount the drive in FTK Imager and look for file signatures? See if the files are stored as a known type with a header and footer then just carve them out and convert them?
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John
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The files are stored as the raw unencrypted stream, there is no way whatsoever to convert them.
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Doug
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According to this thread you not correct, John.
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-hd-supertelly/16624-copying-sky-hd-programs-pc-hard-drive.html
I have not tried this personally so I cannot vouch for it's accuracy but it does seem possible. If the program is doing it then my way also seems theoretically possible.
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John
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You can copy the drive yes, can't do anything with the files outside of the sky box though.
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Doug
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quote:
There's a program called +Extract which can copy the DVB transport streams recorded on the SkyHD disk onto a PC. You can then use a program called Project X which will take those transport stream files and "demux" them into viewable MPEG2 files, provided the TV programme was recorded from a free-to-air channel (like the BBC channels).
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John
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I didn't know you could do that, that's of limited use though, anything you can do that with is probably online.
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Edd
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why bother seems like a massive wate of time?
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Stoneyginger
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Registered: 25th Jan 01
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i found that skyuser website and managed to get some of my programs converted into mpeg format just takes a while to do. amazing how much stuff is on it on the anytime bit of the hard drive
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