Become a Site Supporter and Never see Ads again!

Author Topic: transferring files from DVR  (Read 4384 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline leib

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 216
transferring files from DVR
« on: December 12, 2011, 11:53:49 PM »
Hi, i hope someone can help me.
I have some recordings on my DVR (verizon) that I want to capture.
anyone do this before, if i can't transfer it directly I guess I could record onto my panny TM-700
suggestions?
TIA

Offline sabre

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 189
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2011, 09:08:54 PM »
What model is your DVR?

Some DVRs have the capability to transfer recordings via USB. Even if your model does not support this feature directly, it may be possible to remove the hard drive from your DVR and install it into a PC and extract the files that way. Hopefully the files aren't encrypted. Are your recordings HD?

runonce

  • Guest
  • Trade Count: (0)
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2011, 07:52:32 AM »
I pulled a 500GB SATA drive from a DishTV DVR...no luck getting it recognized on the computer...so, not sure it will be that easy.

Offline leib

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 216
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2011, 10:33:00 AM »
Thanks, when I get home I'll check he model

Offline keytohwy

  • Trade Count: (7)
  • Taperssection All-Star
  • ****
  • Posts: 1003
  • Gender: Male
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2011, 02:05:47 PM »
Also, what OS are you transferring to?

I've got a TiVo (I know you do not) an transferring is trivial.  Also, some DVRs have firewire, also giving easy access, with the right software.


Offline russjcan2

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Taperssection Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 21
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2011, 11:41:37 AM »
your cable dvr will be encrypted and also won't work unless it can communicate with the cable company.

Offline Chrisedge

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 425
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 01:24:31 PM »
You usually use Firewire to transfer from Cable Boxes, uncompressed to a Computer. There is an good thread on AVForum on how to do it with Macs/PC's...
Audio: Sound Professionals SP-CMC-10 (AT933s) or Church Audio CA-14 (Omni & Cards) Mics >
Sound Professionals Battery Box SP-SPSB-1, SP-SPSB-10 or Church Audio Preamp CA9200 >
Sony PCM-A10, Sony PCM-M10, Tascam DR-2d Recorders
Video: Panasonic DCM-ZS100 & GoPro 7 Black

Offline rigpimp

  • Trade Count: (14)
  • Needs to get out more...
  • *****
  • Posts: 3177
  • Gender: Male
  • Jarts don't kill people!
Re: transferring files from DVR
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 01:00:10 PM »
If it is one of the older Scientific-Atlanta boxes you may be in luck but I do not have experience. 

If it is the newer Motorola DCT3416 it has a live firewire port in the back.  You can find a set of Windows drivers online and use CapDVHS to capture the .ts file in real time, both SD and HD as the .ts is just a container.  I used to split open the .ts file with HDTV2MPEG and then edit out commercials and render it to DVD using VideoReDo.

The biggest problem today is the broadcast flag.  Most programs are encrypted now without a workaround and that is when I stopped messing around with it.

Get your stb model number and search for it in the AVS forums. 

Also check here: http://home.comcast.net/~exdeus/stbfirewire/

Good luck!
Mics: Schoeps MK 5 MP, Schoeps MK 8 MP, Schoeps MK 41 MP, KCY 250/5 > PFA
Pre/A>D/P48: Sonosax SX/M2, Sonosax SX/M2-LS, E.A.A. PSP-2, Baby Nbox, Neumann BS48i-2 (for sale)
Recorders: Sound Devices Mixpre-6ii, Sony PCM-A10
Playback: Jolida 1501 Hybrid > McIntosh MX 130 > Von Schweikert VR-4 JR, or Little Dot MK III > Sennheiser HD700
http://archive.org/bookmarks/kskreider
https://www.concertarchives.org/kskreider
https://archive.org/details/thespps

 

RSS | Mobile
Page created in 0.097 seconds with 33 queries.
© 2002-2024 Taperssection.com
Powered by SMF