On 11/09/2017 12:33, RS wrote:
I have never used a Humax. I bought a second-hand one years ago, but
I think it had a faulty power supply. The more recent models have
FreeSat. It seems to be a general limitation of satellite receivers
that I can have Freesat or multi-satellite with DiSEqC and USALS but
not both. I
prefer multi-satellite. The multi-satellite boxes are generally cheaper
(maybe through not having to pay a FreeSat licence fee) and less locked
down, although support is not so good.
I don't have multi-satellite facilities so I've never tried that in the
UK, however, at some stage, I may look into that for the Philippines.
I find Teamviewer useful for remote control of my PC. It has occurred
to me that I could use it to set up get_iplayer downloads remotely,
but I have never done it.
I use Teamviewer and it's superb for that purpose, although net speeds
in the Philippines are a challenge - it's a flaky service and I don't
get much above 1Mbps, whereas here in the UK, I'm at 200Mbps!
I am not usually abroad long enough for the 30 day limit to be a
problem. Being able to control recording on my satellite receiver
remotely would be useful. I have been looking on Amazon, and there
are now a few android receivers. I have never got very far with
android. Google seems to want to control what I can do even more
rigidly than Microsoft, although I have found some pages suggesting
ways of running Linux on an android device. On Amazon and TechKings I
came across a range of Linux receivers with the name Zgemma which look
interesting .
I use get_iplayer for anything on the Beeb that's available through
iPlayer, the rest, such as ITV, Channel 4, etc are for the Humax box.
The custom firmware for the Humax-FoxsatHDR is great because you can
view the full Freesat EPG on your PC and select programmes to record
using that. I do however have to set things up the day before as the
Humax needs to be rebooted remotely for recordings set up this way, but
you get used to working ahead.
As the Humax records some programmes with two audio streams (the
standard plus a Narrative stream)
The Basic page of Mediainfo gives quite a good indication of what
streams there are in a file.
Ah I wasn't aware of this program, I'll have a look at it later!
Kind regards
Alan
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