Humax Foxsat HDR - Connect to Laptop ?

[emptage]

I have a Humax Foxsat HDR and would like to play files from the hard disc through the Humax to my Sony EX403 TV. Is this possible. My laptop does not have an HMDI port. If this is not possible is there another way of achieving this.

 

[Dave_]

Your best bet would be to install Raydons custom f/w (media and file server bundle) on your Humax, which would allow you to stream to your laptop, or a tablet/smarphone etc, plus other handy features.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/freesat/1661195-media-file-server-bundle-foxsat-hdr-release-4-0-part-3-a.html

 

[emptage]

Thanks for this. I am a little nervous of downloading this software to my brand new Foxsat box. Is there I way I can achieve this using cable connections. I note that the Foxsat has a USB port

 

[Dave_]

Is there I way I can achieve this using cable connections. I note that the Foxsat has a USB port

No. You could transfer recordings to USB stick/HDD, but only SD recordings as HD recordings are encrypted.

 

[emptage]

Thanks for the reply. If the recordings are on a hdd what do I need to do then to show them on my TV?

 

[professorhat]

I think you might be confused - the Humax will playback any recordings on its hard drive direct - you don't need a laptop.

Or are you trying to play back recordings on your laptop hard disk?

 

[emptage]

I am trying to play recordings which are on my laptop hard disk

 

[Dave_]

Ah, think i mis-understood what you're trying to acheive.

So you have media on your PC that you want to playback on your Humax?

If that's the case, the HDR can play back the media (provided it's in a compatible format) , but you'll need to use Raydon's AV2HDR s/w to create the companion files to allow playback on the HDR.

http://myhumax.org/blog/?page_id=166

http://video2hdr.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[emptage]

Thanks but I dont want to use software, I want to hard wire. I this possible ?

 

[professorhat]

If I've read correctly, your TV has a VGA input (picture below) - presumably your laptop has a VGA output on it (if it doesn't have HDMI)? So just connect your laptop direct to your TV with a VGA cable.

Without the software Dave's linked to, there's no way you can play media which is on your laptop through your Humax, and even then, it would need to be in the right format to do so.

 

[emptage]

Thanks, this weems to

be the answer I was looking for. The TV does have a VGA input. Will I also need a seperate input for the sound ? If So, how do i achieve that ?

 

[professorhat]

You will need a separate connection for sound, yes. How to achieve this will depend on what outputs your laptop has - if you have a standard 3.5mm output (looks the same as a headphone output), then you should be able to connect this into your TV with a 3.5mm cable (the input on the TV will look the same and will be close to the VGA input). Otherwise, you could possibly connect into your Nait5i-2 with a 3.5mm to RCA phono lead.

If you have a DAC and if your laptop has an optical output, you could connect via this into the DAC. Remember, you'll probably need to configure Windows (or whatever your operating system is) to output via this connection.

If you have none of these options, you'd need to look into getting some kind of USB sound card which would give you one of these connections.

 

[emptage]

Thanks. I have done this and have got

a picture on the tv screen Howver the picture is small and does not occupy the whole of the tv screen How do I make it fill the whole of the tv screen

 

[johnnyblue]

I stream BBC I player from our laptop to the Toshiba tv via an hdmi cable.To get the picture to fill the screen you will have to fiddle through the various aspect ratios on the TV.On Toshiba TVs it's usually the Cinema 1 or 2 aspect.Sony will no doubt have their equivelant.