[MPlayer-users] Humax Digital 8000T Digital terestrial STB with 40GB HD

[J. Grant]

Hi Gavin,

> How were you planning to get the raw data out of it? Moving the hard disk to a 
> PC?

That is one option.  In a caddy etc could be workable.  I am just 
considering my
options at this stage.

> I can't say that appeals to me, nor does the obvious alternative of using the 
> RS232 port :) Unless of course I'm wrong and the device does have an Ethernet 
> port?

It may have a mod to have an Ethernet port, like Tivo.  I'm interested
to figure out how to uncompress the HDF file (maybe it is using MPlayer
already!?).


Anyone recognise these header bytes? (index is in octal)

0000000 00 12 66 61 00 03 00 49 2c 0b e4 00 2c 0b e4 00
0000020 00 0e 54 11 4a da 82 a0 80 03 7f f6 00 00 00 00
0000040 29 f8 8d ee fb a3 69 bb 2f f9 00 00 00 10 83 00
0000060 90 85 3b 73 f7 fc cc 49 24 92 4b 13 72 12 c9 6f
0000100 7b 71 36 c0 61 09 1c 00 96 12 49 6c 49 b0 92 cb


> If you want to record digital TV under Linux, just get yourself a Nova-T DVB 
> card (about £55 now..) and head over to linuxtv.org ...

Cool, I'll check it out, thanks for the link.

Cheers, JG