T3 able to play P2 files?

dddp · Post by **dddp** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 13:27

be nice if it can - i'd like to connect my P2 drive to the T3 and copy across a bunch of files i'd like to have on the T3 internal HDD

i was thinking of pulling my P2 drive out of my P2 and putting it in an external usb box and plugging it into the T3. Then after the copying process is complete, put the P2 drive back in the P2

be nice if the T3 converted the P2 files to T3 format during transfer to the T3 too, of if not ( and i don't think it can) the T3 be able to play the P2 files

can any of this this be done?

prl · Post by **prl** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 14:20

The beta testers have full Linux command line access to the T3. I don't know if that will be the case for production models.

dddp wrote:be nice if it can - i'd like to connect my P2 drive to the T3 and copy across a bunch of files i'd like to have on the T3 internal HDD

i was thinking of pulling my P2 drive out of my P2 and putting it in an external usb box and plugging it into the T3. Then after the copying process is complete, put the P2 drive back in the P2

You should be able to copy media files that way through the T3 GUI. Not DP series recordings, though. You can copy the files that make up the DP recordings in the command-line interface, but they won't be playable copied that way.

The files that make up a Beyonwiz recording need to be converted into a single file and given a .mpeg or .ts extension to be playable on the T3. I discussed how that can be done here. Using getWizPnP on the T3 to join the recording files together isn't practical on the T3. The method using "cat" is untested on the T3, but may work, or may be able to be made to work. Again, this requires command-line access to the T3. Using "cat" will only work reliably on unedited recordings, or on recordings that have been at most "topped-and-tailed".

dddp wrote:be nice if the T3 converted the P2 files to T3 format during transfer to the T3 too, of if not ( and i don't think it can) the T3 be able to play the P2 files

dddp wrote:can any of this this be done?

Probably, but at the moment probably rather less conveniently than you'd like. It's a pity that there isn't better backward compatibility to the DP series. Perhaps that will come, but much of the need for it will be at the start of life of the T3.

peteru · Post by **peteru** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 14:56

Why not run getWizPnP on the T3? The files could be converted as they are being copied from the P2 drive to the T3. Perl is available, what else would be needed? (Besides a UI).

prl · Post by **prl** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 16:46

peteru wrote:Why not run getWizPnP on the T3? The files could be converted as they are being copied from the P2 drive to the T3. Perl is available, what else would be needed? (Besides a UI).

Perl wasn't there when I tried it. If it can be loaded as a package, then sure.

dddp · Post by **dddp** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:32

peteru wrote:Why not run getWizPnP on the T3? The files could be converted as they are being copied from the P2 drive to the T3. Perl is available, what else would be needed? (Besides a UI).

sounds like the go to me - much better than transferring from P2 to Pc and then to T3

i'd imagine there'd be a viable market for this functionality if someone was to develop it, i'd buy it

prl · Post by **prl** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:23

dddp wrote:
peteru wrote:Why not run getWizPnP on the T3? The files could be converted as they are being copied from the P2 drive to the T3. Perl is available, what else would be needed? (Besides a UI).
sounds like the go to me - much better than transferring from P2 to Pc and then to T3

i'd imagine there'd be a viable market for this functionality if someone was to develop it, i'd buy it

I'm afraid that getWizPnP is only available for free. I have a feeling that it may be tricky to make a shrink-wrapped version of getWizPnP for the T3, though. I'm not sure whether there'd be a version of PerlPackager for it.

[peteru] There is, of course, already a UI for getWizPnP on the T3. It's called the Linux shell. Oh, wait; did you mean GUI?