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Re: copy from DVR

by Kees_B - 12/15/11 11:57 AM

In Reply to: How to download from a Dish DVR? by rickhart57

Yeah, that's what they do to prevent (unauthorized) copying.

What does Windows' Disk Management (how to start it depends on your OS: XP, Vista, 7, so I can't tell the details, just look in the Help and Support or Google it) say about the disk? Probably something like "raw" or "unallocated".

Then there's nothing you can do about it, probably. Having it done by a professional data recovery company (if they would do it) probably would cost more that just buying that 100 movies on DVD.

Kees

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Download from a Dish DVR

by rickhart57 - 12/15/11 1:16 PM

In Reply to: Re: copy from DVR by Kees_B

Unallocated. I understand the the Dish DVR operates on a Linux based program, but there shouldbe something out there that will allow youto view. I'm not looking to violate copyright laws.

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They do this to make sure you don't.

by R. Proffitt - 12/15/11 1:22 PM

In Reply to: Download from a Dish DVR by rickhart57

Please look at what company hosts this site (CBS)
And look at the forum policies.

You may not get the answers you want here.
Bob

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Doesn't work anymore

by markmisky - 1/26/13 9:47 AM

In Reply to: Re: copy from DVR by Kees_B

I've had my DVD recorder set up for a couple of years like this and a few months ago, it stopped working. All I get is a grey blank screen now. I heard that Dish set up some sort of handshaking system now and outputs must be to an "trusted" device to prevent copying their stuff.
If anyone has a workaround would love to hear about it.

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This is what is supposed to happen.

by R. Proffitt - 12/15/11 11:56 AM

In Reply to: How to download from a Dish DVR? by rickhart57

The content is locked to the DVR to prevent folk from accessing copyrighted content or copying it out.

Nothing busted. It's working fine.
Bob

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Answer to How to download from a Dish DVR

by stevedahl - 12/15/11 4:57 PM

In Reply to: How to download from a Dish DVR? by rickhart57

It's been about 4 years since I did this last.
The first thing I did was remove the hard drive from the DVR and I placed it in my Win XP computer.
I downloaded and installed DiskInternals Linux Reader Freeware (diskinternals.com)
Diskinternals Linux reader let me read the files directly on the DVR drive. I then copied the files from the DVR drive to an NTFS formatted external drive.
The video files on the DVR are not in a standard avi or mpeg format. You will need to install some software to play them or convert them to a standard format. I used a program called Splayer to play the videos I copied from the DVR to the external drive. I downloaded splayer from splayer.org
Have fun.

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dvd recorder

by carolpeters - 12/15/11 5:31 PM

In Reply to: How to download from a Dish DVR? by rickhart57

just buy a dvd recorder & record the movies you want to keep.as easy as can be...

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dvd recorder

by rickhart57 - 12/16/11 7:01 AM

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That would work if I still had Dish network. Now I have nothing to even recognze the file format.

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Tipping my hand here.

by R. Proffitt - 12/16/11 9:51 AM

In Reply to: dvd recorder by rickhart57

I have worked with companies on DVR code. The stuff that's inside. The file format is not published and is non-standard to present another hurdle to block the content from being accessed.

Some will not accept this and will lose lots of time trying this. As I know what's going on I write this as a courtesy to you and wish you well but I can't help you any further.
Bob

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Wrong answer

by ValB63 - 1/22/12 9:31 PM

In Reply to: dvd recorder by carolpeters

I get that piracy is rampant and needs to be prevented. However, that small part of what DVRs are used for should not over ride what if is used for. I had a lot of home movies, grand baby videos, that came up lost because I accidentally reformatted the hard drive instead of the DVD-RW disc I had intended to reformat. It just disgusts me that the industry as a whole would intentionally go out of their way to set it up so that any thing that I record needs to be protected from me!!

If you think there needs to be protection from me, then add a stinking routine to the delete function so that when I select "Delete" on the remote and the selected drive is the hard drive, then prompt me with "Hey Stupid, do you REALLY want to delete your HARD DRIVE"? If I had gotten that response, I probably would have caught it that I was about to delete from the hard drive and not the disk.

Yes, I am fuming because I have just wiped everything off the DVR including home movies that are lost forever.

It was a Panasonic DMR-EH50. The 100GB disk keeps showing up as a zero filled 2TB drive (no partition, nothing).

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