A3 Under the hood fun

[wallyhts]

Was playing around with the A3 today trying to get some 4:2:2 going. No luck yet.

But here's some stuff. "Installed SSHServer app" to let me in

If you kill the pid attached to androidTvServer bye bye video.

To change from readonly to read and write I remounted by typing this.
"mount -o rw,remount /system"

** If you mess your A3 up it's not my fault lol **

 

[KE4EST]

I can't play around with mine too much, the wife has taken it over.
This receiver is by far the best way I have seen to get your wife into the hobby.
I think these guys, with wife bosses need to buy this thing.

 

[FTA4PA]

I can't play around with mine too much, the wife has taken it over.
This receiver is by far the best way I have seen to get your wife into the hobby.
I think these guys, with wife bosses need to buy this thing.

Tell here she needs to share or buy you one of your own (and another dish too, might as well think big)!

 

[wallyhts]

I can't play around with mine too much, the wife has taken it over.
This receiver is by far the best way I have seen to get your wife into the hobby.
I think these guys, with wife bosses need to buy this thing.

Lol, Just ssh in and keep typing "reboot" and tell her it must be broken.

 

[wallyhts]

So after talking with a satellite buddy today. He gave me lots of ideas in fact he was doing something really cool with his dvb-t dongle last night.

Here's what i was think.

Install tvheadendserver "looks like people have installed on amlogic andriod stbs before"
Then configure XMBC for livetv pulling from tvheadendserver and bam hello 4:2:2

 

[KE4EST]

Don't tempt me.

 

[wallyhts]

Don't tempt me.

Since its almost xmas. I triple dog dare you

 

[KE4EST]

haha....only thing they forgot though was a keyboard. I gotta get one for it...one of them little small remote size ones.

 

[wallyhts]

haha....only thing they forgot though was a keyboard. I gotta get one for it...one of them little small remote size ones.

I ordered the one below full size buddy not no small thing lol
Amazon product ASIN B00BP5KOPA

 

[Dee_Ann]

I can’t figure out how to download recorded videos from the A3.

I installed a 500gb disk internal. The system had me format it, I chose to use EXT3 but and it apparently treats it as a windows disk despite this (Android is Linux so why the windows stuff?) and it assigned it a drive letter “C:”

In the recording options I selected the C: drive as the location where I want recordings to go.

I record something and it shows up in the recorded videos list and I can play it back just fine.

But I want to transfer it from the A3 into my Mac.

I installed the FTP server and I selected the path “/storage/external_storage/sda1”.

I see there are files that say stuff like @PBS and @EBRU but when I try to download them it says there’s nothing there or I don’t have permission or both.

I looked at the path using the file browser built in and it shows me the same thing.

Is this thing restricting us from downloading recordings? Like some DRM thing?

 

[Jim S.]

If it's like the A1 and A2, then @PBS (for instance) is a directory. Inside it should be various index files for the DVR, plus your recording in an @PBS.ts file. (If you have the disc formatted in a Windows format instead of a Unix format, then anything larger than 2GB (I think) will be split into @PBS.ts, @PBS.001, @PBS.002, etc.)

 

[Jim S.]

Oh by the way, I don't know what you're using for an ftp client, but if it doesn't default to binary mode, don't forget to switch to binary mode before downloading. (Why ftp still has a 7-bit mode after all these years I'll never know -- we're not using teletypes anymore...)

 

[mc6809e]

The 1TB drive in my A3 was formatted NTFS on one of my WinXP computers. To copy files or recorded programs from the A3 I've been using a registered copy of BulletProof FTP client. It's worked well so far.

Ernie