I don't know the ins and outs of your box, but I suspect that your recordings have some kind of encryption on them.
I'd be looking at using a combination of an HDMI splitter and an HDMI capture card. The "splitter" which you can find cheap on Amazon and eBay needs to be one that removes the HDMI encryption. They're used by gamers on consoles to send one signal to the TV and another to their computer for capture/streaming. Then use the output of the splitter with an HDMI capture card to record onto your PC using something like the free OBS. Capture cards from name brands like Elgato aren't super cheap, and have been hard to find recently. But there are some really good cheap no-brand Chinese ones ( https://www.theverge.com/21346571/cheap-cam-link-capture-card-streamer-clone-review-test-price) and I've used one very successfully. Just find someone shipping from a local location rather than China for speed. It's possible that these also remove encryption, but I'm not sure. Anyway, with those two and the odd HDMI cable you hit play on your DVR and can record nice clean un-encrypted digital output on your computer. Adam On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:35 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I have a technical issue that I'm hoping someone can help me with. > > Long story short: we weren't receiving some stations on our > Comcast/Xfinity system, so the guy came out to fix it (as much as he could; > apparently, there's some issue with the box on the pole across the street). > When he re-hooked up my DVR, though, it wasn't working, and there are a > number of things (such as my TCM intro) that I don't want to lose. (I'm > getting an "E1:26" error message, which apparently means the box is about > to fail, even though it was fine until he unhooked it). > > Is there any way to download the video on the DVR to an external hard > drive--or even another DVR--or am I just screwed? I've consulted my > computer guy and a friend who runs the video department at Stanford, but > I'd rather do it myself if possible. > > Thanks in advance. > > --Dave Sikula > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/4cec16d3-d97a-4030-b504-7c763ba89191o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/4cec16d3-d97a-4030-b504-7c763ba89191o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDdoo7-DR%3DorRR1ziM3Pf1Q%3DQtPp2Nzotb09ghvpvU4_A%40mail.gmail.com.
