There was a good program on France 3 which we recorded, and we'd like to keep it for posterity, so i hoped I might be able to copy it onto pc
The canalsat box records onto an external hard drive connected with a USB cable, so I hoped I could just unplug it from the canalsat (cube) and plug it into my pc. Which indeed I can and the pc wordles for a minute installing device drivers, but after that there isn't a new hard drive visible
windows has now been "searching for devices" for some time, so it's what, a funny format perhaps? Anyway, plan A fails. Plan B recording from France 3 website is perhaps possible, but we'd have to do without subtitles so it won't be as much use for our visitors as we'd hoped. Does any clever clogs know a good plan C please?
The simple answer is 'no' Steve.
Even if you were to use plan E so you could 'see' the drive and save the recording you would still not be able to do anything with it. It's encrypted. Now you would have an operating system you don't like and still no video.
BUT....
If you know anybody with a video capture wotsit you can plug into the scart output of the canalsat cube you might be in business though.
BUY ONE HERE: http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyCap-DC60-Capture-Adapter-Software/dp/B0…
I believe that canal-sat runs on ext.4 format which Windows is unable to read. Plan C could be to load a Linux O.S. alongside your Windows on a dual boot set-up. Plan D could be to install software to read Linux ext.4 formats.( one possibility is Diskinternals - http://download.cnet.com/DiskInternals-Linux-Reader/3000-2248_4-203562.html).
(Plan E - Ditch Windows and install Linux)
