Brilliant work again Repassac & GLT. Many thanks. At least I'm now sure of the problem
I left Ch4HD running for nearly 4 hours and the fault appears to have gone. So it must be bad sectors on the 1TB HDD that I installed a year ago
The maximum memory of the 0.ts buffer file is exactly 19,126,026,240 bytes and the .nts file 107,673,344bytes.
This appears to be reached in 3hrs 25min for a 1080I HD file
I’ve rebooted the box and the 1.ts and 1.nts files are still there.
What I didn’t realise was that once the first 0.ts 0.nts buffer files are created, it remains static on the hard drive. All the subsequent buffering is just recorded over it.
If the renamed files aren’t deleted with the overnight Humax housekeeping, leaving the files on the drive should prevent the bad sectors from being accessed again? Or that’s what I hope otherwise it mean copying 700GB of recordings and sending the Hdrive back (Lifetime guarantee)
Another addition to be added to Raydon's M&FS Bundle options that I wasn’t aware of:
Now for the interesting bit for archiving up to 2 hour HD recordings
Using Filezilla and Samba/Explorer or similar in Raydon’s M&FS Bundle 4.04, access the Humax Video folder.
Rename the 0.ts and 0.nts files to 1.ts and 1.nts.
Change channels on the Humax and new 0.ts and 0.nts file are created on another part of the drive but the old renamed files remain (19GB and 107mb)
You can then play/copy to the pc/edit the content within the 2 hour’s already recorded renamed 1.ts file.
These HD buffered files aren’t encrypted, just make sure your HD recording falls within the 2 hours (changing channels and back at the start will put your recording back to the beginning of the buffer file or use a watch reservation as mentioned by glt)
This seems to be a good alternative to copying in real time with VLC and although I’m sure that the experts are aware of this, maybe others would like to try it
I’m just waiting to see how much time there is to use the 1.ts file as it may be deleted with the Humax overnight cleaning up but in any case once you’ve used/copied the file you can delete it yourself and start again with the next recording
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