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Originally Posted by roy_huntley
Hi,
Took delivery of a V+ box lasy month...very happy with it so far, although it does seem to make quite a loud whiny sound alot of the time (lifting it slightly makes it go quiet...may just be vibration?).
I never got a manual with it, so I have two questions...
1. Has anybody managed to get any recorded tv shows on to a portable media player / pc / storage card ? What format are the shows recorded in on the v+ box.
2. What is the ethernet socket for (obviously, plugging an ethernet cable in!)...has anybody tried plugging one in and navigating to the v+ ip address ?
Thanks
Roy.
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The only way to get recorded shows off of the V+ box is via the copy to DVD option. You would need to burn a DVD using this, then rip it on a PC to extract the MPEG2 files and then transcode to whatever format you wanted. Very, very long-winded and quality will take a hit because of all the conversions.
What you are asking about is getting the raw digital files off of the internal hard drive, currently there is no means of doing this, short of physically removing the drive and plugging it into something else. Doing so would be completely in breach of the terms and conditions an dyou could expect a large bill from VM if repairs were needed. Remember we only lease the box not own it like Sky. Even if you were to do this, I would expect that the files are encrypted in some way and the encryption key to be related to the actual box. So if a box were to fail, you couldn't simply swop the drive into another one and access your recordings. Very annoying but it's the sort of copy protection I would expect the program makers would insist on.
Note that all this is pure speculation on my part, I really have no inside knowledge of how the V+ box works, but it does seem a reasonable guess.