Dish 510 DVR to PC?

[Captain315]

(May be the wrong forum to post)

I have Dish satellite service and a bunch of movies recorded on the Model 510 receiver / DVR combination. Was wondering if there is a way of moving the movies from the DVR hard drive to hard drive on the PC without having to capture the movies in realtime.. Anyone found a way to do this?

[yoda313]

You might want to do a yahoo search for "dvr hack". They've hacked the tivo to do a digital dump of the files to a pc. I'm sure someone has probably cracked your dish too. Though if it involves opening the case it will void your warranty.

[TBoneit]

Yahoo Groups
Dishrip

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dishrip/

Keep in mind if not carefull you can damage your drive, Do not initialize it in windows. You can also void your warranty by pulling the drive

Having said that their is software to extract form the 501/508/510 DVRs to a windows drive.

[Captain315]

Thanks to both of you. Would rather not have to crack the case at this time so I'm hoping to find a software package that will allow it to be done in another manner. May just have to do it in real time even though it will take considerably longer.

[SHS]

Check the Sat forum like dbstalk.com do a search for "dish 510 dvr hack" good lucky and ask me thoses stand along product are biggest hunk junk ever made you sring for a real PVR box
WinTV-PVR 150, 250 ,500 and or USB2
Take your chosse of min diff PVR software package
SageTV, GB-PVR, BeyondTV, CTpvr and there min min other out there.
Note don't buy in to MCE carp unless you like DRM carp.

[Captain315]

SHS... Thanks for the reply but I think you have misunderstood what I need. I already have Dish Network and two DVR's. I have no problem recording the movies to the DVR's, I'm trying to find a faster way of getting the movies off the DVR and onto my PC hard drive for editing and burning. My computer allows for the usual, USB, IEEE1394 and Hauppauge250 mpeg2 capture.

[SHS]

That the problem with STB DVR is you the have hack in order to enable the USB, IEEE1394 output if has it.

[TBoneit]

You Can not hack the 510 to enable the USB. The 510 is not a standalone PVR. It is an integrated Sat receiver and PVR. They work nice and fast and record the stream, DVB format, to the hard drive. It is a non std MPEG2, with large GOPS and other things that can cause sync errors if not run through VideoReDo when extracted from the dirve into a computer.

[SHS]

TBoneit it is to a standalone PVR and only diff is it had a Integrated Sat Tuner

[TBoneit]

To me a standalone is a PVR that can work with cable, or antenna. Like My Standalone Tivo or a Replay. OTOH a DirecTivo is not a standalone as it can only work with the DirecTv service. Same as a Dishnetwork unit can only work with Dishnetwork.

The difference is that a standalone has an encoder in it whereas the DirecTivo and Dishnetwork PVRs have no encoder. They can not rcord over the air signals.

OTOH again, the two services have HD PVRs that can record HD channels over the air but once again they record the digital stream of HD content being broadcast.

Maybe semantics. Maybe our views of what a standalone PVR differ in interprtation?

Cheers