Posted on 03/17/2017 7:43:57 AM PDT by lafroste
Agreed. According to Spectrum, all DVR’d movies have a key that prevents coping to another device, even another different or same STB, and certainly for preventing copying or translating into common formats. But I’m all ears!
Sorry, Windows doesn’t read Linux File Systems natively. I was thinking faster than I typed. The DVR re-formatted the drive to a native Linux file system. As I said previously I would reformat the USB to FAT32 which natively can be read by both Windows and Linux and see if you can copy over the files.
Use VLC Media player. It runs on Linux OR Windows, is free and comes with any codec and file format ability you can find (practically).
You would be much better off converting your
Windows system to Linux. It is about freedom - not free-software. I recommend Debian...
Yes, an appropriate utility could work, but that’s not native to Windows.
Did you Ask Alexa? The NSA ma know.
Consider a Hauppauge TV tuner for your computer and connect the receiver to your computer. (make sure your output cable to input cable match- IE : ‘F’ to ‘F’). Then transfer them to your computer.
Search Youtube for FireTV Guru. He’ll get you fixed up and make updating easy.
I would offer, the Firestick is basically a modestly powered Android tablet without a screen. You have to be patient with it. In particular after you load Kodi and the plugins are updating. Best to just walk away and let it finish.
Streaming on Kodi is a little geeky. Behind the scenes, you are streaming bittorrents. Bittorrents aren’t all equal. There is a wide variety of quality. Again, be patient. If you get a bad stream, just stop and try another. You will soon learn which hosts work best.
The older and/or more obscure the movie is, the less likely you’ll find a good stream. Pretty much anything from 70’s forward you can find.
Good luck!
NOOOO!! Debian and it’s evil children (the __untus) broke the basic Linux premise with systemd. Call them what you will but Linux they are not.
Data files are NOT os dependent. There is no such thing as a “linux format” video.
I am not trying to be snooty here, but your question itself reveals a dearth of basic knowledge intense enough to make me question whether you can handle this, even if what you were trying to do is possible.
I would suggest:
1) finding out if the files are encrypted. Here is a how to for you, since you are on a windoze box http://windowsitpro.com/security/fast-way-find-efs-folders-and-files
2) if they are encrypted, give up. They have smarter people than you (or me, or anyone on Free Republic, probably) figuring out how to scramble this data making it unusable.
3) if they are not encrypted, figure out from the file extension name what “format” they are in. Video files come in a number of formats. “Windows” is not one of those, but are likely .avi .flv .mp4 etc etc. You need a video player which will play the file. These are free and downloadable all over the internet.
Hope that helps.
Windows can certainly “read” linux formatted media. Ext2IFS used to work with windoze xp, and can be tweaked to work with Windoze 7, but beyond that, I don’t know, and it really only works well with ext3 formats. Later versions of nix formatted media do not work well with this.
You can go into the medium (linux boot) with PARAGON which is an ext file info system, rename uig:gid to “0” and then all files will belong to root, reboot and sudo a copy to fat file system.
I have a feeling the original poster may have bitten off more than he can chew here. I know it would certainly be beyond my technical competence.
I think he will just have to pay up :)
If you have Linux why would you want an overrated POS? Windows is Obama, Linux is Trump, IMHO....
Sadly, some programs are not written for multiple platforms. If ‘Aces High’ would port to Linux the Windows would be long gone from my PC. It will run under WINE emulator but horribly slow.
LOL! I guess the “Linux premise” is making an OS as difficult as possible to install and use, thereby keeping as many users away from computers as possible.
The Debian fork Mint has been great to me, whenever I can find something to run on it. Works like the old XP (except much cleaner and faster) when you have a GUI that you don’t need to bludgeon into compliance.
As far as this DVR video thing goes, I’ve had the same experience as the guy talking about store surveillance systems goes. You can pull files off until you’re blue in the face, but if it’s not a standard codec it’s not going to be playable on any other device.
The best bet (though aggravating) is to go the tuner card or tuner device of some sort route and just play the DVR into the computer. Record it using an MP4 or similar codec, unless you want to keep it Windows, in which case record it as a WMV.
Sometimes they’ll put a movie (illegally) on YouTube. I don’t recommend breaking the law at all, but if you want to record it to watch it later (and then of course delete it as soon as you’ve watched it, because hey, it’s illegal) you could use the following program to capture the video in many different codecs:
http://www.anvsoft.com/any-video-converter-free.html
The following program is a video player, nowhere near illegal, that can play about as many codecs as there are extant:
32-bit version: http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player-32-bit/3000-13632_4-10267151.html
64-bit version: http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player-64-bit/3000-13632_4-75761094.html
You are parroting nonsense.
In Debian, you don’t have to use systemd if you don’t want.
That being said - I’ve run linux servers and a linux desktop for 17 years now - systemd does solve problems for desktop users and as of now works well.
There is resistance to change - everyone likes the first editor that they learned - yet if you are not too old, it is quite easy to get up to speed with systemd,
https://xtronics.com/wiki/Systemd_Cheatsheet.html
Took me a couple days - and I’m in my 60s.
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