From Satellite Receiver to Computer

[tycapel7]

I have a Satellite receiver that has an external hard drive connected to it. I have tried to get Windows to recognise the file that it makes, so that I can make a DVD of what I have recorded.

The receiver is a Manhattan plaza st 550. After making a recording onto the hard drive, I take the hard drive to the computer and connect it as the secondary master, which can be read from the primary master.

I then try to read what is on it from the other hard drive on my computer. It does say that there is a media file on it, but does not recognise it as a windows file.

Widows explorer cannot read the file, so I am unable to read the file extension. I did try and have Windows on the drive before I connect it to the receiver, but it would not accept that at all. Can anyone tell me please, should I be able to read the file or convert it to mpeg using some extra software, or is there another way I have not tried yet.

Regards, Bobby.

[DVD_Bar]

Don't know answer to your specific question, but here's a link to a forum which gives a link to a yahoo forum on doing this very thing with a dish network receiver. Haven't tried it myself. It may give you an idea of how to proceed with your receiver / hard drive.

http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=63373&highlight=dish+network/

[The_Doman]

It is probably recorded as some form of transport stream.

Try to process it with projectx.
If all goes well it should be able to demux it properly.

[tycapel7]

Thankyou both for your reply, i have joined the Yahoo group and have posted the same questune. I am also downloading the the program you suggested to have a look at what it can do. Not quite sure what Demux is though.

Regards Bobby.

[dcsos]

Can you see the files on the disc in EXPLORER?

(force all file extension visible in XP..in any window go TOOLS>FOLDER OPTIONS>UNCHECK HIDE FILE EXTENSIONS)
If you can drag the file
to the VIDEOLAN PLAYER it should play any kinda transport stream

[SatStorm]

try to extract the files using DVR studio

http://www.haenlein-software.de/haenlein-software/index2.php?navigation=dvr-studio&una...prache=english

[tycapel7]

Thankyou SatStorm, i think you are on the right lines there. I need to study the program a bit first, but it looks promising.

Regards. Bobby.