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Dreambox 8000
Does updating firmware delete recorded items on hard disk?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dog's dinner" data-source="post: 781511" data-attributes="member: 362627"><p>Dear Gerry55,</p><p></p><p>There are no overheating issues as far as I know, and I'm sure I would have noticed by now. Just yesterday I held the box while I made sure the terrestrial aerial fitted snuggly into its slot in the rear, and I would guess the temperature to be in the lower 40s (C). </p><p></p><p>I think I know two causes of the crashes. One is if the terrestrial signals are too weak or broken up somehow by weather conditions. I tried moving the indoor aerial (which is an active one, powered from the mains), to see if that improved things. I'm also planning on looking for a better aerial solution. Anyway, if the recorded programme has imported these signal deficiencies, then the box will crash. Funnily enough, I can watch the programme in an emergency in "cut list" mode. But that's not much fun. </p><p></p><p>The other known cause is pressing buttons on the remote too quickly after one another. Say you've pressed one button, but made a mistake and press the right one immediately afterwards, before the machine has had time to digest the first command, that tends to either freeze the software or cause it to crash. Now in my opinion, the software (or the DM software, which I'm getting used to), is unbelievably slow, given the speeds that a computer can produce editing video and sound files, for example. It's also a lot slower than what I assume would be a much more basic in software terms my old Pioneer DVD recorder, which can divide/remove parts of movies in the twinkling of an eye. The Dream box can take as much as five minutes just to edit out a couple of minutes from the beginning of a movie. And it can't edit audio-only files at all. </p><p></p><p>While I'm ranting on, what I also find incredible is that the machine can't organise itself to execute a recording without being tuned to the relevant channel (or one in its vicinity transponderwise etc.). That is, it can't command itself to tune into the channel it's been asked to record. That led to many frustrating non-recordings in the early months. And if it has already started recording when you suddenly realize you forgot to tune the Dreambox to the right channel, it's major operation to correct the problem. You can't simply switch channels from the wrong one to the right one because it'ss give you the famous "tuner failed" notice, and the machine will probably freeze or something. The only way round it is to enter the timer, delete the timed recording, exit through several software layers to get back to the tuning level, tune it to the right channel, start recording again. That process can take for ever (feels like it). </p><p></p><p>Now I'm sure I've been doing things wrong a lot of the time - learning from mistakes hopefully. And I'm also sure the software was getting increasingly corrupted over the first twelve months. But having a machine which crashes totally just because you pressed the yellow language-choice button is just simply ridiculous. </p><p></p><p>What I would really have liked to see or read, or even find a site, which compiled the info on Dreambox matters (preferably with a glossary explaining terminology for dimwits like me), and listed and commented on the various possibilies open to the normal punter using Linux and flashing images etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dog's dinner, post: 781511, member: 362627"] Dear Gerry55, There are no overheating issues as far as I know, and I'm sure I would have noticed by now. Just yesterday I held the box while I made sure the terrestrial aerial fitted snuggly into its slot in the rear, and I would guess the temperature to be in the lower 40s (C). I think I know two causes of the crashes. One is if the terrestrial signals are too weak or broken up somehow by weather conditions. I tried moving the indoor aerial (which is an active one, powered from the mains), to see if that improved things. I'm also planning on looking for a better aerial solution. Anyway, if the recorded programme has imported these signal deficiencies, then the box will crash. Funnily enough, I can watch the programme in an emergency in "cut list" mode. But that's not much fun. The other known cause is pressing buttons on the remote too quickly after one another. Say you've pressed one button, but made a mistake and press the right one immediately afterwards, before the machine has had time to digest the first command, that tends to either freeze the software or cause it to crash. Now in my opinion, the software (or the DM software, which I'm getting used to), is unbelievably slow, given the speeds that a computer can produce editing video and sound files, for example. It's also a lot slower than what I assume would be a much more basic in software terms my old Pioneer DVD recorder, which can divide/remove parts of movies in the twinkling of an eye. The Dream box can take as much as five minutes just to edit out a couple of minutes from the beginning of a movie. And it can't edit audio-only files at all. While I'm ranting on, what I also find incredible is that the machine can't organise itself to execute a recording without being tuned to the relevant channel (or one in its vicinity transponderwise etc.). That is, it can't command itself to tune into the channel it's been asked to record. That led to many frustrating non-recordings in the early months. And if it has already started recording when you suddenly realize you forgot to tune the Dreambox to the right channel, it's major operation to correct the problem. You can't simply switch channels from the wrong one to the right one because it'ss give you the famous "tuner failed" notice, and the machine will probably freeze or something. The only way round it is to enter the timer, delete the timed recording, exit through several software layers to get back to the tuning level, tune it to the right channel, start recording again. That process can take for ever (feels like it). Now I'm sure I've been doing things wrong a lot of the time - learning from mistakes hopefully. And I'm also sure the software was getting increasingly corrupted over the first twelve months. But having a machine which crashes totally just because you pressed the yellow language-choice button is just simply ridiculous. What I would really have liked to see or read, or even find a site, which compiled the info on Dreambox matters (preferably with a glossary explaining terminology for dimwits like me), and listed and commented on the various possibilies open to the normal punter using Linux and flashing images etc. [/QUOTE]
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