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Posted by Brian on 11/24/05 08:50
Micro Henry <uH@MyServer.Loc> wrote:
>Brian wrote:
>
>> Thanks Henry for your feedback. It's good to learn about holding down
>> the Standby/On button as I must have missed seeing it in the manual.
>> I also used a lot of DVD-RW's to backup the hard drive as the drive as
>> nearly full when it crashed.
>>
>> One thing you might be interested in....
>> When adding videos to the copy list, there is a feature that allows
>> you to join up videos that are in the copy list. This is useful if you
>> collect short video clips of news items etc off TV and want to join
>> them as one video.
>> When the Pioneer DVD recorder has written the video chips to a DVD as
>> one video the first character or each video clip is missing.
>> The only advantage of having the first chapter missing was if you had
>> a few frames of the program title at the start of the video clip as an
>> chapter then it would copy the video clips and not include the titles.
>> If you don't have any chapters in a video clip then the video clip is
>> not copied. The only way around that is to create a fake chapter one
>> or two frames from the start of the video clip that is to be joined to
>> other video clips.
>>
>> Regards Brian
>>
>
>Last Friday I did what you did. I saved all 103 files, 78hrs of recording at
>MN7 compression. The drive was full. I went out and bought 25 2X-DVD-RWs @
>$2.00 a piece. I only used 17. But I planned on only getting 4 1hr files
>per disc so 25 seemed like a safe number. MN7 gets 4-1/2 hrs per disc of
>reasonable video quality. Because some of the files already had the adds
>removed, many 1 hr shows were only 45 minutes. So I got up to 6 programs on
>some of the dics.
>
>It took 11hrs to get them all copied. Then I re-initiallized the HDD and
>copied them all back. That took 5 hrs. But it was worth it. I am back to
>where I was before it broke. Even though the max copy time per disc is 30
>minutes for 4.7Gbytes, not all were full, and setup, handling, down time
>consumed about 2hrs. So 9hrs copy time and 2 hours handling and labeling
>time. Copying back took 15 minute per disc. So that's about 4-1/2hrs plus
>30 minutes handling time. All in all it was a lot of time and work. But
>this demonstrates that the HDD can be recovered as long as it has not
>crashed, then you're SOL.
>
>I also discovered a factory reset sequence that allows you to start fresh
>like it came out of the box. Press Standby/On , Stop Play, and Stop Record
>congruently, and the system immediately resets to factory defaults. On the
>good side, this does NOT, delete any HDD files. You have to use ERASE ALL
>command in the Navigation Menu to do that, if desired. To me that's a good
>thing. No Accidental erasure. This also resets the disc naming labeler to
>DISC1 for the first disc. I did reset my unit.
>
>After all this work I am back in service again have not experienced any
>addition problems. I hope this problem does not return. It ran just over
>year trouble free.
>
>Again thanks for your postings, they were helpful.
>
>uH
Thanks uH for the handy tip.
I found today after some experimenting that when joining video clips
in the copy list the first chapters of each video clip does not get
deleted when copying to a DVD-RW disk formatted in VR format.
When copying to a DVD-R or DVD-RW then the first chapter of each video
clip does not get copied only if it's very short (eg 6 frames long).
Some of my tips:
I have many short video clips that I plan on joining up (when in the
copy list area) then writing to a DVD-RW VR type disk. I can then edit
the disk removing any content I don't want. Then I'll copy using the
high speed option the video (result of joined video clips) back to the
hard drive. Once that is done I can then copy to a DVD-R disk as a
permanent copy.
If you want to keep the best of a certain TV program then write it to
a DVD-RW (video type) disk. You can freely delete programs and add
other programs if you find a program better than the one you have on
the disk. Once the disk is full then you can be a backup of the disk
to a DVD-R disk using the BACKUP option on the DVD Recorder.
Regards Brian
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