Record with FREEBOX POP
BIGA26 -
Hello,
I have recently equipped myself with the FREEBOX POP. This box does not have an internal hard drive. Originally, recordings were stored in the cloud (100 hours free). Recently, it has become possible to send them to a physical medium (USB stick, external hard drive).
When I go to my personal space on FREEBOX OS (*), I can see that the recordings have been successfully made. However, on the FREEBOX (via the Free remote control and opening the VLC application on my TV screen), a recorded movie does not necessarily appear in the VLC tree structure: never under VIDEO, sometimes under NAVIGATION > Local Network > Smb.
The problem is that there is a USB port on both the white BOX and the black PLAYER.
Should I use one of the ports DURING recording, and the other for PLAYBACK?
I am also wondering about the recording format. The few times I have been able to view (from the box and on my TV) a recording made on a stick, this stick when played back on my PC was shown as empty.
(*) no action seems possible on the recordings in this space, except for archiving.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide me with concrete solutions.
2 réponses
Hello,
I have a Freebox mini4K, so it doesn't necessarily work the same way as yours.
I have an external hard drive connected to the mini4K, not to the TV player. This drive I dedicated and formatted with the Freebox. The scheduled recordings on the TV player, or on the Free.fr website for example when we're away to program remotely, are stored on this drive.
This drive is visible from Windows with access \\freebox. I had to enable the SMBV1 setting in Windows to see it. On this drive, there is a recordings directory where you can find the recordings made by the Freebox. But not all of them, some channels (like C8) do not allow Free to authorize copying, only viewing. To watch these, you have to use the internal viewing of the Freebox player. That’s why I think they are not accessible through a third-party application like VLC. The recordings are in .m2ts format with an H264 video stream and an ADTS audio stream.
On Freebox OS, with the file explorer, you can see the recording files, those from the channels that do not prohibit it, and schedule a recording.
On the drive, the Video, Music, and Photo directories are meant for you to drop files, which then become available via the Freebox Multimedia Upnp/Dlna server for multimedia client devices. This is different from SMB file access. SMB access is read/write, while Multimedia access is read-only.