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grl

Looks like ProjectX is not going to be useful for these new H264 channels. It's claim to fame was that it fixed errors. Has anybody got any suggestions on what to use in its place. I use it for error correction and ad removal. Do I need a new toolchain? DP-P series is where I am coming from. I'm not...

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peteru wrote:The last thing you want on your PVR is Android. Trust me, I've seen what that looks like.

I don't want android either. I don't trust google at all. Their aim would be to know what you watch, and then use it against you. Android is based on Linux anyway. I'd rather have the real thing.

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For those who may not know the Intel i7 was released in November 2008 making it the same age as the BCM7405, but that is beside the point. This is still a current chip, used by other manufactures. Let us all wait and see what the product is like in the flesh. That's drawing a long bow. The i7 has h...

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Peteru,
Have you tried any X265 encoded video playback?

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Hi Peteru,
One of the gripes with DP models was poor picture (images/photos) viewing experience. How does that look now?

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You must be a discerning viewer. I regularly record 2 at once and have often needed 3 and sometimes 4. Once or twice I have even wanted 5.

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When you have finished debugging it for me, let me know

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Just when I had given up hope, they're back!

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I have actually recorded 4 programs simultaneously using 2 beyonwiz's so I'd find 6 tuners useful on the odd occasion. Ratings season is probably when this would be needed. I wonder about disk bandwidth for 6 shows at once, particularly if all HD. Maybe they have an SSD in there somewhere.

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Or futureproof. Even if people were still working on the code it's hardware is limited. Both of these will need updating to support new media formats. This is so it would continue to be useful as a media player. I also wonder if Australian TV stations will ever start transmitting an MP4 stream inste...

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It would be nice if they could pick up some of the code from beyonwiz. I sort of like the interface now. Even better would be if they open source some of it so we can contribute. I have picked up an astone media player with tuners as a cheap standin for a beyonwiz. The interface truly sucks. Beyonwi...

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A deadline coming up is the loss of analogue TV in Brisbane. This means I need to buy a set top box. Since I can't see the point of that - I may as well spend the extra bucks and get a PVR as well, I am after opinions on what to buy. I value the opinions here as beyonwiz has proved good for me as ha...

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I've always preferred XFS over ext3. Not sure if that is an option on QNAP. In particular if the kernel is based on 3.0+ linux kernel XFS will probably perform better than ext4 and in a more predicatble manner. ext4 is still a bit new for my liking.

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SSD is a do it yourself option now. Go right ahead. You won't fit many recordings on one however. Don't expect anybody to do it as an option supported by the vendor as they won't sell enough of them to make it worth their while, because of the cost, and lack of capacity problems. A PVR appliance is ...

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Loganholm Harvey Norman still sell them. I saw DP-P2s there a couple of weeks ago.

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One thing I did in the past was to add a fan to the back of the AV cupboard (open front, closed back.) It had a receiver that was a tight fit. You cool everything that way. Both my P2's are in failry open settings, although I have a DVD player sitting on top of one of them. It has not added signific...

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I've looked at handbrake as it seems to be a good baseline for the mkv side of things. I am now looking at mediacoder 64 as a possibility. The main thing it seems to lack is the presets. It could also do with the some internal cross checking so that once you pick the container, it limits choices on ...

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I would have thought a warranty claim would have been the first thing to try. I think even refurbished units have that, at least the ones I looked at did. I have 2 P2s and they don't overheat. The case is warmest above the PSU, however.

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Since we have a break from the normal work slog, I've been looking at media converters with the future in mind. It is a pity we don't know a little more about the new beyonwiz product/s in development. We can only speculate on what it/they will support in terms of video formats. I'd like to start a ...

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Thanks for that netmask. no mkv support unfortunately.

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I must admit I had not actually tried the result on the beyonwiz. We had a presentation prepared for a funeral on WIndows 7 Ultimate, so I just tried that out and it worked OK. General Complete name : V:\Misc\work\jeannemovie.wmv Format : Windows Media File size : 712 MiB Duration : 25mn 12s Overall...

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If you want to go this route then Windows Movie Maker also does this. I am sure there are plenty of other 3rd party apps that do this too.

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I saw a similar problem in Brisbane. The audio was also working just after that, so I guess they switched codecs again.

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running the 1.05 series firmware

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no audio from my beyonwiz for this new channel. I think the OP said it worked for him. My Samsung TV handles it OK.

Anybody else have it working with the beyonwiz?

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I've seen this again recently too. I think I missed a couple of episodes of Crownies and one of Underbelly. I also missed some one of recordings. I looked in the timer list and they were still queued up even though the date was well past it. It seemed like those timers were jamming things up because...

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It's funny, because I have other folders with up to 222 videos in them - and they show up fine. Weird! It's hard to say where the fault lies - the NAS or the DP-S1... Mark I am pretty sure I have seen it with smaller numbers of files too. Could it be more related to the overall length of all the fi...

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Yes I can. beyonwiz user is in smbusers group and that group has rwx to directories and rw to files.

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Hi Ian,
I thought re-indexing was for recordings on the BW itself. I tried it anyway and it made a couple of recordings show up on the BW but made no difference to the NAS directory behaviour.

Cheers,

Greg

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Just to confirm I am still seeing the problem. I have been slowly adding to the NAS and have hit the limit again in one of my directories. It is around the 300 file mark as the OP noted. I am also still seeing the weird filter behaviour. When you initially go into the problem folder using the BW int...

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Sounds like you are trolling for information on the new product. Good luck. Maybe you need to teach the other household members how to use it. My kids, wife and even my 70 year old mother have no problems after just basic instruction. I reject complaints about the user interface. Yes it could be bet...

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I have had 1 out 1 Seagate WD ........ OK, I'm confused - which is it?? :P :) LOL fixed - WD it is. I have seagate in the other DP-P2. It also seems OK. On Hitachi... The model (HDS72202) I am using in my NAS is also used in our Enterprise SAN (probably different firmware.) The failure rate on the ...

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I have had 1 out 1 WD Green 1.5TB fail and replaced under warranty. I have 2 samsung 750GB drives and 2 samsung 1.5TB drives that have been going strong for a few years now. I have a 2TB samsung drive also that is mostly offline. I have 9 Hitachi 2TB drives and one has started getting a lot of bad s...

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I have seen this behaviour with poor reception as well.

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No help sorry. I have not seen this problem. It almost always works for me. The only problem I have is that occasionally the edit won't work at all, but this is non-destructive and I just have to transfer the whole thing up to the PC to edit.

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However, via network connection, it 'sees' a maximum of 36 titles of the 400+ in the 'Movies' folder. This is a long shot but I had a similar problem. Uninstalling my avast antivirus solved the problem. See this thread http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=6314&highlight=avast. Why,...

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So when you are in a directory with missing files what happens when you use the left and right arrow keys to move between the media filetypes (at the top.) You should try using both arrows to see if anything changes in the listed files as the media type changes.

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Could you not create a new account on the forum, post in the testing area asking for the real account to be sorted out? The regulars always seem to read and reply to those posts.

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I had the black box problem with 1023 but not with 1014, which luckily I had installed on an older PC running XP. 1023 gives the correct icons on XP but not on Windows 7 64 bit. Another thing I noticed is that the text in the "about" information for both versions does not show up on Window...

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I do quite a few recordings and top and tail them all, pretty much. It has happened to me maybe twice since the firmware update and was also probably just as rare before that. The workaround mentioned here has always solved it for me.

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A few people asking for faster USB. Do we want USB3 and/or eSATA to help with that? I reckon it would help particularly with moving a longer recording from an HD channel. Still need enough grunt in the CPU to move the data that fast, however. Cost could be an issue. We still want an affordable devic...

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I'd like the ability to handle ipTV as well, or enough grunt and flexibility so that it can be supported with later firmware updates. I see this as being the future sooner or later. Basically I am pretty happy with the current unit. I like its functionality, it just needs to be upped a notch, so thi...

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It sounds like your device is still under warranty? If so just ring beyonwiz and let them deal with it.

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Hi Netmask, I bought an EATON 5110 1000A at the beginning of the year. I chose it because it has an in-built voltage regulator for when we need to run on generator power - apparently very important for computer type equipment. I use it daily with my computer setup, but it was purchased with a view ...

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That was one large outage. I see some rogue junk mail post crept it somewhere along the way too.

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Hi Dr Dre, re the reindexing, that was done on the NAS (Control Panel => Media Server => Reindex). . So the re-indexing is to do with the media server function. Isn't the beyonwiz using the fileserver function from the NAS? i.e. the protocol used would be SMB. My NAS has media server capabilities t...

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Apologies - should have clarified. The March release I was referring to was for grl's NAS, not the the synology. I am running the March release. I have not checked to see if the bug is still there with it but since I am convinced it is the beyonwiz filter code causing the problem, I won't be priori...

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Was happy but suprised that the folder optiimisation did the job. Reading the original symptoms, I figured it had to be something to do with the file structure - there were too many items not showing up for it to be the Brady Bunch error that I remembered. Perkinma2 did mention that he had reindexe...

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But also more than happy to try some more troubleshooting if you have any suggestions. I have been through this same problem with a Thecus NAS. I did not find a solution, just a work around. I split my files into subdirectories with smaller numbers of files. I also noted the issue moving through th...

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