Humax HD-FOX T2 media content sharing

[headcase]

Ive been trying to set one of these things up today and failed badly. The box is hardwired to the router and I have a laptop running Vista. I have enabled media and file sharing, the firewall has been turned off, laptop is turned on and media player is running.
In the Humax menu it shows it is connected to the network and I can even navigate the laptops file structure from the Humax menu's but when I access any picture there is no preview and it dosent display the pictur fullscreen either (just get the message 'Processing').
Similar thing with video only it says 'Cant play this file type' Tried AVI's, WMV's and MPG's.
For music it dosent even see the file structure.
In short I cant get the content sharing working.
Any ideas?

[E31Shrew]

Bit above me that one but have you had a gander at www.hummy.org.uk

Good luck!

[headcase]

Yeh, its flummoxed me, im normally quite good at getting this stuff working, im not too sure if there is something else at the PC end needs doing or weather its one of Humax's software upgrades required. Ive had a good old search of tinternet, just wondering if anyone here had had a fiddle with one.

[E31Shrew]

I've got to the stage where I'm reluctant to mention some of the facilities on certain products, when selling them, as they can open up a whole new chapter of issues!

[headcase]

LOL tell me about it . Ive been stitched up coutless times this week, every time you turn on veira cast you have to wait 20 mins now for a software upgrade before you can do anything. The HDD/DVD combo's are doing it too

[E31Shrew]

My pet hate is the Samsung 'internet' tellies. Number of times I have to revisit clients, resetting the bloody things, so they can watch you tube videos, are too many to mention!
Add the new iplayer software downloads and its a certain recipe for failure.

Had a Humax PVR that took over an hour to download the 'updates ' last week. All the time the family are sitting on the sofa while I'm sweating like a pig!

[headcase]

You wanna get yourself a lappy for the humax's, its a lot quicker to do it that way and even kinda makes you look more professional

Edit for speeloing

Edited by headcase on Wednesday 4th August 23:20

[E31Shrew]

Good idea. Will look into it.

Good luck!