XBy - 2 hours ago »
You mean :
"The problem exists because in the way that the stream is being encoded the box cannot build the required PVR indexing correctly. This causes it to get confused and believe the recording is zero in time. "
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Sadly I have little idea what PVR indexing is, or how the encoding of a programme that the box can demonstrably view could affect the boxes ability to record. In my naivety I assume that there is a "spec" for such things. If there is, and if the broadcast conforms, then I assume the Humax box does not.
I have heard a few things about a few other boxes have had the same issues. If it's in the spec, the BBC still should have done some more tests on a few actual retail boxes - it's only by far the most popular Freesat box, for goodness' sake. Surely they coul have spared a few hundred pounds of their budget to buy some of the more popular Freesat boxes for testing purposes *before* the olympics...
I do have a (very) vague idea about how video streams work - doesn't the indexing allow positions in the file to be matched to time indexes, thus allowing the stream to be easily jumped around in (eg using the 30 second skip buttons). Presumably this indexing should be present, but other PVRs make their own indexing so get around the problem. If the PVR didn't detect any indexing, for whatever reason (either the required indexing isn't present in the stream, or the Humax has a bug that stops it detecting this indexing), it can't decide where to start recording (presumably the Humax likes starting on an indexed point, for whatever reason, hence the 30 minute message).
