Setting up my Humax PVR....

[dan1981]

Morning all,

Bought a Humax PVR basically as i wanted to record TV and all you guys said it was good!

The TV i'm running it through however already has freeview built in....

At the moment - i've got the ariel running into the PVR and then PVR scarted to the TV - this means i have to use the PVR as the freeview source.

Is there anwyay i can also use the tv's digital recpetion so in effect i could record two channels and also watch a third (different) one? - Woudl i just need to split the arial and run one into the TV as well and that would let me use it as an alternative source?

Cheers

Dan

[Plotloss]

From what I can see about the PVRs (dont use Humax kit) then yes, theoretically you could.

[dan1981]

Plotloss said:

From what I can see about the PVRs (dont use Humax kit) then yes, theoretically you could.

Do you ever sleep???

Or do you just lurk here - waiting to help me with my repeated AV questions???

Cheers (AGAIN)

[Exige77]

From the Humax run out the RF cable and the scart to the TV.

Use the scart to view what you have recorded and the RF cable will give the TV it's own signal so the two are independent.

You can watch one thing on TV and be recording another on the Humax.

Good luck !!

Ex77

[The_Burg]

You can record 2 channels and watch a third on Humax anyway, (as long as its on the same 'MUX').

[Pickled Piper]

Yes you need to run an aerial lead from the PVR to your TV. This way you can be recording two channels on teh PVR and watch a third on the freeview tuner on the TV.

pp

[dan1981]

Superb - cheers guys.

[gib6933]

sorry to hijack but could you make a device that records the signal from the aerial, and then play it back? so you could record all the channels in one go?

Its always bugged me that question, I never knew who to ask though.

[The_Burg]

gib6933 said:

sorry to hijack but could you make a device that records the signal from the aerial, and then play it back? so you could record all the channels in one go?

Its always bugged me that question, I never knew who to ask though.

It's certainly possible i would think, but the amount of data would be enormous.
Not sure what the total number of channels and radio stations on freeview is but certainly over 100. So you would need near 100 times the capacity to record everything at once.

[stuart-b]

The_Burg said:

gib6933 said:

sorry to hijack but could you make a device that records the signal from the aerial, and then play it back? so you could record all the channels in one go?

Its always bugged me that question, I never knew who to ask though.

It's certainly possible i would think, but the amount of data would be enormous.
Not sure what the total number of channels and radio stations on freeview is but certainly over 100. So you would need near 100 times the capacity to record everything at once.

You would also need a hugely powerful machine to copy with de-coding/compressing & writing to drives with over 100 streams similtanously. Normal PCs could handle 1-2, more high spec machines, perhaps 3-4 - then the hard drive would run out of write speed and it would buffer into RAM, then collapse horribly.

If you run it uncompressed you could probably record alot more but this will put far more load on the HD... so either CPU will limit you, or hard disk speeds.

We shot a corporate film last week and it took a Dual Core PC with SCSI drives to take live streaming (uncompressed) HD from a Sony HD Camera with sound. For about 8 minutes of film to promote our software products, it used 120GB of space on the editors PC (with various takes).