OK, I’ve just looked at the most recent Google brainwave inversion tracking stats for the site and found some traffic from discussion.apple.com. Seems that someone flagged the original Humax post I made as a ‘long winded’ approach to getting video from everyones’ (well, in the UK at least) twin decoder DVB PVR and converting it from MPEG TS.
Looking back at that post, it’s slightly out of date, so I’m re-casting that information here for people to follow as a simple recipe to video success on their Macs.
What you need to do:
1) Get a copy of the HumaxGUI application from Andrew Smith’s site and install it.
2) Connect your Hummy up to your Mac with a suitably long USB cable.
3) Open the HumaxGUI Application and connect to your PVR. This works just like an average FTP package - select the file you want and hit transfer.
4) Go and make tea, and more tea, and perhaps do the ironing. Take the dog for a walk, come back in, take a nap etc.
(Yes the USB implementation that Humax have achieved absolutely stinks for fast data transfer - so you’ll have time on your hands. The best approach here is to queue up what you want to transfer and then let it batch run overnight.)
5) Once you have the files on your Mac, you will need to either watch the files with something like VLC which will run just about anything.
6) If you want to change the video format to something else (QT, MP4 or MPEG2) then you will need to transcode it using either VLC (not had much luck there myself), or use the excellent MPEG Streamclip. The only caveat here is that for MPEG2, you might need to buy a copy of the Quicktime MPEG2 component from the Apple Store online. I think this runs at around £15 / $20.
That’s all there is to it. Honest.
Tags: 9200t, freeview, humax, OS X
