Get 'Jukebox' files from Pioneer DVR-650H-S

[kirkmc]

Hi,
Is it possible? The manual says they can be played with WMP, I've installed this but can't find any of the files with it (and see if copying with WMP works).

It connects via USB and the (Windows XP) PC sees the recorder as a camera in Explorer so no 'Sharing and Security' option. You can see the files and folder structure. Attempting copy/paste moves a file but it becomes 0 bytes long. The Copy Pictures wizard bombs with 'unknown error'.

Thanks for any info.

[jman98]

Bottom line - You're not going to be able to do what you want to do.

This is a DVD recorder with a hard drive. It is encrypting what it records to the hard drive. This why you cannot cut and paste and why the wizard barfs. This is also why you have to use WMP - it is using a type of Microsoft encryption. I suspect that this is recording in encrypted DVR-MS format. I know of no program that can defeat that encryption. Your only option to get those files off the recorder is to make DVDs out of them.

[kirkmc]

Thanks jman. I won't even try ! Still have all the original disks so nothing lost except time. The book does say you cannot copy to a DVD but if that's wrong - do you know how to do it ?

[oldfart13]

Probably a "copy once" system. Try using DVD-RAM discs...

Good luck...

[jman98]

I'm just now reading this again. A new low for Pioneer. Really? A DVD recorder with a hard drive that you cannot use to make DVDs from? Unbelievable. That's the kind of bs Sony does, not Pioneer.