Thread: Visionsat IV200 PVR Plus

Originally Posted by SatelliteAV

Update:

All HDD type units will be supported by the next factory firmware release. This should be available in the next week.

cool. Might have to get a new hard drive. but I'll proabbly get a smaller drive. that 320GB one was bigger than the receiver

To clarify: programming will play back on the receiver as one program irregardless of the length of recording. The split files are only an issue if ripping or viewing the file with an external player. Many software applications will stitch multiple files together for single file formatting and playback. We have also requested to see if the individual file size could be increased to the maximum FAT32 format.

interesting. I heard there is an upgrade soon to allow it to go up to 4 hours or more

Additional satellites and transponders will be added in the next release for viewing satellite serving North America from the Atlantic and Europe.

sweet...Is there any way to delete satellites from the list? i never did find that

well I went tonite and got a new Western Digital 320GB HDD

Got it home, hooked it up and the receiver took it instantly..Formatted the drive which took maybe 10 seconds and now we have 319GB of space

Only thing is when I hit record it still shows "1:00:00" like that the max...gonna record some stuff and see what happens

Well, with 300gb of free space, I assume that's roughly 300 hours of recording.
You give us a call when it -doesn't- say it's got an hour of free space!

that'd be a -lot- of games !

yep...I did a "set it and forget it" on a channel to see how long it will record.....I might just reload the factory software on it again to clean it of the USB thing

well it stopped recording at 1:00:00

gonna redownload the software into it to see if that helps

I found a workaround for that...either set a timer or after pressing record, press it again and that kicks you into a menu like a "one touch recording" like the old VCR's had where you can change it up to 2 hours

New Factory firmware is being released next week that will set default for the record button for two hour recording. Any record time up to 24 hours can be set by setting the record duration timer stop time.

To prevent the channel name from being repeated on new channels with no provided service name, set the Channel Name menu option to OFF. Explaination: The factory default setting is set to name the channel with the Long Name, which reads the channel name from the Network Table. If the Network Table does not have a name associated with the PID found, the receiver places the name of the previous channel on the found channel.

Originally Posted by SatelliteAV

New Factory firmware is being released next week that will set default for the record button for two hour recording. Any record time up to 24 hours can be set by setting the record duration timer stop time.

sweeeeeet

To prevent the channel name from being repeated on new channels with no provided service name, set the Channel Name menu option to OFF. Explaination: The factory default setting is set to name the channel with the Long Name, which reads the channel name from the Network Table. If the Network Table does not have a name associated with the PID found, the receiver places the name of the previous channel on the found channel.

I don't see that option on the channel options. I'll have to look again

Another option is to use an external 2.5" laptop hard drive.

Advantages; Small, energy efficient, draws power from USB jack (no AC wall wort or brick).

Disadvantages; More expensive, lower capacity limits (currently 250 Gb maximum)

If your A/V rack is short on space this option should be considered. You can buy a laptop drive, external USB case and DIY or buy one already built. I built one of these as a backup harddrive for my laptop. The external drive is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket.

If anyone is interested I can provide more information on what or where to buy.