XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 18/02/2025 10:17 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Daniel70  wrote:   
   >> On 17/02/2025 3:21 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>> Herbert Kleebauer  wrote:   
   >>>> On 16.02.2025 14:39, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I've got a PVR who's HD is getting pretty full (90%+) with   
   >>>>> programs I'll want to watch some day ... so I was thinking about   
   >>>>> coping some of the 'Keeper' programs onto DVD which meant buying   
   >>>>> a spool of DVD's.... but   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A 4 TByte 2.5" USB Disk costs about 100?    (10 Cent for 4 GByte)   
   >>>> A 256 GByte USB flash drive costs about 15? (25 Cent for 4 GByte)   
   >>>> A DVD-R costs about 25 Cent                 (25 Cent for 4 GByte)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So a DVD-R is by far the worst choice.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's all very nice, but the PVR will probably only be able to copy   
   >>>   to DVD, but not to an external USB HDD or USB memory stick, etc..   
   >>>   
   >>> Daniel will correct me,   
   >>   
   >> O.K., if you want me to, :-P ....   
   >>   
   >> My PVR certainly has USB connectors on the back panel and I have,   
   >> previously, had a USB (5GB) stick plugged in.   
   >>   
   >> This is how I was going to transfer the files from the PVR to my old   
   >> Laptop as it has a writeable DVD drive in it.   
   >   
   >    But did you actually *do* it and *succeed*?   
      
   Yes ..... but no!!   
      
   This afternoon, I switched off my PVR (just to be sure!), inserted my   
   USB drive into the appropriate socket on the PVR's back panel, turned on   
   the PVR and went looking!!   
      
   When I saw, in the PVR settings, the "Safely remove the USB drive."   
   setting was still greyed out, I figured I'd done something wrong ... So   
   PVR off, USB drive out, tried inserting it elsewhere (fail), re-inserted   
   the USB Drive in the same socket .... and Success!!   
      
   So I copied a program ('QI', British half hour 'Comedy' program) from   
   the PVR's HD to the USB Drive, ejected the USB Drive (i.e. 'Safely   
   remove ....'), booted this Win 11 Desktop, inserted the USB Drive, File   
   Explorer, double clicked on the big file titled '000' (116MB+) which   
   started up Media Player ..... only to find out my Win-11 has no MPEG2   
   codec/whatever ("Checking codec availability. We're checking if we have   
   a codec for this item."). ;-(   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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