Beyonwiz Australia

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... Why don't BW pull their finger out and release the API as well? Just about everything could have been fixed months ago, and we'd all be happy little vegemites instead of snarling fire-breathing monsters (myself included). The Beyonwiz application firmware is a small number of monolithic program...

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pjc3 wrote:Except the capacity is huge.

Philip

And the price, too (media and device).

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peteru wrote:...
perhaps the splash partition contains the flash recovery code.
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The SplashConfig MTD partition on my DP-H1 is completely zeroed out.

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A bit of very selective Googling came up with the following promising bits extracted from a different device. One of the MediaGate boxes, by the looks of the Japanese page. Apparently the MediaGate version of the bootloader can be interrupted with a keypress, but won't respond until a passphrase is...

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Hi Joffa, if Nine succeeds, then other commercial channels may take similar action against IceTV. Copyright is the exclusive (with some narrowly-defined exceptions) right of the copyright holder to make copies and publish (and, I believe, IceTV does both). IceTV claim that they hold the copyright ov...

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What does the BW say the signal strength and quality are?? (from the tuner info on the popup menu. It says 98% signal strength, 0% quality. If this thing doesn't start working by the end of the weekend, it's going back to the store under warranty and I want my money back. 98% signal strength, 0% qu...

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De gustibus non est disputandum ... FF and REW are very beneficial - - skipping through ads - watching recorded sporting events in fast motion and then slowing down to normal speed when something happens that catches your eye. to name a few examples I don't use FF for ad skipping. I watch little TV...

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I'd prefer that BW "got it together" and addressed some of the long-standing problems on the bug list, than addressed new features, at least for the next couple of releases.

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De gustibus non est disputandum I agree about the lack of folders, even though our usage tends to be watch-and-delete. However I virtually never use fast forward, and I've been thinking lately of reprogramming our BW 6-in-1's FF/REW keys to be track skip keys (which the 6-in-1 lacks). I do virtuall...

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Is there a limit to the number of files the unit can handle on a FAT32 USB external HDD? It seems once you get to around 6000 files on the external HDD, the unit thinks it is full & wont save anymore files to it. I have a 1Tb drive partitioned into 3 equal drives. I connect the HDD to a laptop ...

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... Madmax, yep, the display bug I mentioned is 100% non-critical, but if spelling mistakes in the dialogues are worth mentioning then that certainly is :) Speaking of spelling/grammar, playing a few MP3s tonight where the P1 couldn't seem to read the run-time info and then searching inside them re...

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I have series recordings set for The State Within and Shaun the Sheep on our DP-S1. Last night (Thu 5 Jun) I noticed that our DP-H1 fired up unexpectedly, and when I looked at it, it was doing a timer recording of The State Within, and it had a timer set for StS today (Friday 6 Jun). All the other t...

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With most new releases this year, I've posted on the beta forum begging for an update to the manual. The current online manual for the S1 v1.4e now not only fails to mention a long list of new features in the BW, it's also now incorrect in its description of how to edit recordings and how to set up ...

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... I see that getWizPNP is a perl script. How can I run it under WindowsXP? Is there a free perl interpreter or complier you can recommend? I've not tested getWizPnP under Windows, but ActivePerl works well under Windows for the BWFWTools perl scripts. If you get an error that some perl package is...

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madmax wrote: I hope it's similar to .243, because that is what we beta tested......

Hence (in part) the question about the release notes...

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Hi Ian.

Hear! Hear!

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mankmeister wrote:Now on www.beyonwiz.com for all 3 models.

Hmmm. Good, but no release notes there; and no new version on www.beyonwiz.com.au (yet).

prl

Hi, Tony. Keyword searching has already been suggested on the IceTV Forum, and marc@iSlayer from IceTV has already agreed that they would be a good idea. The ability to search the whole of the IceTV database , including out-of-season programs and announced, but not yet showing programs, has also bee...

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Hi Ian. I agree that the use of hacked firmware puts the user's BW at risk, and I try to be careful to warn of the associated risks. This is a real risk, and for example, caught peteru out when I inadvertently pointed him at the wrong version of Wiz Firmware Tools to use with BWFWTools. I agree, too...

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... What has worked for me, was to open the episode in the Guide section, and click the 'Record' button (you may have to delete the Series recording first before the button appears, I can't remember). On one occasion, this didn't work immediately, but when I tried it again a bit later it did. Other...

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... Another random bit of info - when I had a look at the 1+2+3+4 DHCP/BOOTP requests from the Beyonwiz with wireshark, it was requesting not only the address, but also the TFTP bootserver and filename. I wonder if this is just a generic netboot mode and the recovery utility sends down a program th...

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Bookmarks don't work for networked media, only local BW media. Does anyone know if there's plans to support it for networks? (Or if it does, please tell me how, as I can't do it). It's not possible to bookmark anything other than local BW recordings, not even local (USB drive) media other than in t...

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... I've edited out the ads on the wiz and moved the recordings to a USB connected HDD. As this drive fills, I'd like to be able to compress the recordings to another format e.g. xvid, WMV. I guess that I'll have to convert to a TS file before re-encoding as most programs won't read the native wiz ...

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Yes I guess you are probably correct. Will look in to it. Can I manually pad a timer that has been created by selecting a show in the guide and pressing record? Or do I have to start from scratch and specify service time and everthing? Select a show in the guide, press REC, then press REC again, an...

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It's not a problem. There'll be a Windows edition of MacFX shortly after OS X runs under VM on a Windows machine.

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Good point. Using the tools in xvid4psp to do the editing is IMHO better and easier for taking out all the commercials and start and end times than using the Beyonwiz if your purpose is to get the video to a PC or PMP. I agree; I generally do that sort of editing in MPEG Streamclip. It was just a c...

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... (2) change all filenames to .TS using "Add-Remove-ts.exe" - copy files from FAT32 micro HDD to PC's NTFS HDD first and do it there. (3) Download XVID4PSP then use DGIndex to combine all the files (does it in the right order) This makes a perfect 2 file situation of the video - 1 for a...

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So what about other PVR/EPG providers?? is NONE going to sue them as well?? Or is this something ICE has been shafted for??? I ask, what about other types of Episode Guides?? TV WEEK, Newspapers, the internet sites that produce Copyrighted material for EPG information???? are they in court too??? J...

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danielicetv wrote:I should point out that we have never said that we would open up the icelink protocol.

What we are doing is releasing an API to allow third party applications to communicate with the IceTV website to query and schedule recordings, and also to load guide information.

Sorry, my misinterpretation.

prl

The only realistic solution is to modify the BW to allow EPG from sources other than ICE. That way we can upload our own EPG, or one that's maintained by a community such as this one. ICE is one organization, they're too easy a target for the Nein Nazi's. It would be harder to stop a community shar...

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joffa wrote:So it will be in spite then???

HOW SAD!!!!

Joffa

I think it's more that IceTV is perceived as a threat to the commercial TV stations' ability to market something like TiVo.

Copyright holders are under no obligation to make their work available to others, royalties or no.

prl

A new version of getWizPnP is available on http://www.beyonwizsoftware.net/ . If you use getWizPnP, you'll need to use this to transfer recordings into valid recording names for Beyonwiz firmware version 1.05.243 (and, presumably later versions) . Before the next official Beyonwiz firmware release, ...

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Hi Peter, I still think the data at the DBA website was better organised and more accessible for most people. Regards, Ian. I agree, but it is no more. At least the ACMA data is there. And if you go to the effort of making the placemarks and have enough bandwidth to run Google Earth, that's a great...

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SBS has a page for its transmitters: http://www20.sbs.com.au/transmissions/

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... had proposals and ammendments and no idea if the ammendments were in force or not, and the current finalised docs didn't even include Melbourne, only Central Victoria. Yes, that part of the site is the Slough of Despond . It's made even worse by the fact that much of the Digital TV planning was...

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Yeah, I wanted to verify before I posted, but since the new federal govt decided in their infinite lack of wisdom to shut down www.dba.org.au, I couldn't find anything concrete on what was where. I am trying to struggle on the www.acma.gov.au website (it is all political papers and ammendments, it ...

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SBS Digital is not on UHF29 in Sydney? It is on UHF 33 or 34 (I forgot at the moment). I thought this was the same in all capitals. Perhaps you should try 34 first, then try 33.. Regards It depends where you are in Melbourne. The main transmitter is on Mt Dandenong on Chan 29 (200kW), Sth Yarra Cha...

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Thanks for that, what channel is the Free to Air Guide on ? I don't think that I have ever seen that one. Regards RyanP The Free-To-Air guide madmax is talking about is data that's sent along with the digital TV data. The guide for all the services (eg. ABC1, ABC2, ABCHD) is sent on the ABC's chann...

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Anyway, neutral shouldn't be connected to the case. That would just need one wiring error anywhere in the path to the device to give you a BW that could be tricky to pick up

Have you tested resistance from neutral to case?

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Peter, does this mean that you had your chain pulled again? Didn't you say that in the past the Wiz guys said it definitely didn't have serial access? This is dissapointing deception by the Wiz guys, but excellent progress by Matthew! ... The existence of a serial console port is implied pretty hea...

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logger wrote:WISHLIST - Delete Soft Padding?
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If it was possible would this utility appeal to anyone else?

Virtually nothing I record starts at the scheduled time. I'd hardly ever use a feature like this.

prl

Hi, Perhaps Efry will be able to add a drop down list of all discovered Beyonwiz WizPNP servers available so that users can select the appropriate Beyonwiz by its name from the list. In cases where there is only 1 Beyonwiz WizPNP server available then the program will always start with the appropri...

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Spanner wrote:...
P S Madmax I was told if you did not have somthing construtive to say then say nothing . But then i'm from an older generation
Spanner

OK, then, how about "punctuation is an aid to clarity of expression".

prl

WizMac works just fine for me when I give it the IP address of my BW, either in dotted-quad format or the name I've given it in /etc/hosts. I had a flash of inspiration in the shower this morning (!), and tried the IP address without the leading zeros - and now it works fine! :roll: My only residua...

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OK, here's my dumb question - what host address do I specify in the top panel in WizMac? I've tried the BW IP address (like in WizFX) but that just times out. The default address that comes up when WizMac opens (198.168.1.102) also just times out. Note WizFX works fine so the settings on the BW (Wi...

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madmax wrote: [collapses on floor due to lack of air intake]

Stream-of-consciousness is best left to the experts

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Is there a corresponding incantation to do SMB mounts from the command line?

I've tried trying to persuade /usr/local/bin/mount.cifs to do it without success.

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What hardware/OS are you on? What was the BW doing while you were transferring? A P4 box running Linux. I worked out why - the perl module that getWizPNP uses honours the http_proxy environment variable so the data was being pushed through a squid proxy which slowed things down significantly. It's ...

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Is the performance of fetching a file supposed to be significantly worse via WizPNP? I can usually get ~3Mb/s onto a samba share (which is pretty poor but anyway) but I get about 100Kb/s using WizPNP :( I just timed an ~800MB getWizPnP transfer, and I got 1.7MB/s from my DP-S1 (firmware 1.05.243 be...

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