Software Manual (3)
Firstly you need to load your planner, see Planner Loading for details.
From the list of recordings displayed you can select the ones your wish to copy by clicking the check box next to each recording. You can also right click the recording list and click 'Check All' to select all of the recordings.
Once you have selected your recordings, click the hard disk icon on the toolbar.
You will then be asked to specify a target hard drive. You can also copy to a disk image by clicking "Create Image", this will backup the selected recordings to your computer.
If you have attached your target hard drive and it is not showing up, make sure that it contains no partitions. Hard drives with partitions are not shown in the list so that a loss of data is prevented.
After clicking next, the copy process will start. For large drives this can take some time.
Firstly you need to load your planner, see Planner Loading for details.
From the list of recordings displayed you can select the ones your wish to extract by clicking the check box next to each recording. You can also right click the recording list and click 'Check All' to select all of the recordings.
Once you have selected your recordings, simply click the computer icon on the toolbar.
Once you have selected a destination for your recordings, they will start to copy to your computer.
Note that unregistered versions of ExPVR will only extract the first 200MB of each recording.
Warnings:
The XTV file system is based upon FAT32 but has some important changes. Some utilities try to treat it as a standard file system which is 'broken' and attempt to 'fix' it. For this reason please read these warnings:
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It is highly recommended that you use an external hard drive caddy. If you choose to install the drive internally you need to watch the windows boot up process carefully and cancel any disk check operations. Windows sometimes tries to 'fix' the hard drive on boot up, corrupting all the recordings in the process. Using and external caddy will negate this risk as you can plug it in once the computer has booted up.
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Some anti-virus applications can try to write to the disk, so it is recomended that you disable these while your hard drive is connected.
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Automatic disk defragmenters should also be disabled as these can corrupt the disk.
Firstly you need to make sure you have connected your PVR's hard drive to the computer correctly. A guide on how to do this can be found in the tutorials section.
On opening the application you will be greeted by the following screen:
A list of detected Sky+ HD hard disks will be shown the left hand pane. Checking one of these will load it's planner:
All of the recordings in the planner will now be shown in the right hand pane. Clicking on a recording will show more detailed information about it at the bottom of the window.
Recordings with a red background are encrypted and will not be viewable on a PC (they can however still be copied to a new Sky+ HD hard disk). Recordings with blue text are Anytime Showcase recordings, and were recorded automatically by your box. Recordings with grey text are deleted recordings which are still in the Sky+ box's recycle bin.