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General Toppy discussions :: TF5810 and copy recording function

Author: MillmoorRon
Subject: TF5810 and copy recording function
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:42 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 0

This feature doesn't work on my Toppy.

Is there anything in my signature that could explain this?

I don't have the Xp patch!
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TF5810, F/W: MS6 Recommended F/W 12/9/2009 -Fm+FsIMPsR3RzScStUUuWsZ
TAPs: MPDisplay V2.00; EIT Sub v0.6; SecCache (UK) v0.4; MyStuff 6.4; Extend v1.7; EPG2MEI v0.96

New users start here :: Trouble Installing a TF5400PVR

Author: cassandraj
Subject: Trouble Installing a TF5400PVR
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:25 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 2

Hi, could anyone help me. I have just purchased this Topfield 5400 PVR and wasn't aware that it hooked up to satellite as well - guess who doesn't have a satellite dish So I am totally lost and have heaps of other installation problems. Any help out there? Cheers Cassandra

General Toppy discussions :: TF5810 with older remote?

Author: MillmoorRon
Subject: TF5810 with older remote?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 6:44 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 9

Is there a TAP/patch to allow the old TF5800 remote to control a TF5810?

The buttons on the newer remote are all so small and evenly placed and so MUCH harder to get used to in the dark!

(need to update my signature!)
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TF5810, F/W: MS6 Recommended F/W 12/9/2009 -Fm+FsIMPsR3RzScStUUuWsZ
TAPs: MPDisplay V2.00; EIT Sub v0.6; SecCache (UK) v0.4; MyStuff 6.4; Extend v1.7; EPG2MEI v0.96

General Toppy discussions :: Toppy 5800 160GB for sale

Author: nbennett_uk
Subject: Toppy 5800 160GB for sale
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:24 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 0

Hi - hope this is OK to post - I have a silver Toppy 5800 160Gb for sale - full working order (oroginal box, cables, remote etc). I have quiet fans installed, so not had any over heat issues. Also used to have a 1Tb drive installed (now removed) - so still have the IDE-Sata adapter and replacement IDE cable available, happy to include these. Looking for �50.

Thanks - Neal
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Sutton Coldfield transmitter.
T5800

5.14.09Plus
1TB Samsung Hd103UJ drive
Internal fans

Computer connections :: can I watch Toppy wireless on Mac?

Author: RobP
Subject: can I watch Toppy wireless on Mac?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:44 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 0

I currently use a simple AV transmitter to watch my Toppy wirelessly on a small TV in the bedroom which uses scart. Is there any way of connecting to a macbook pro in the same way?
Any help appreciated!

TAP and patch development :: TAP_SetSystemVar

Author: EMJB
Subject: TAP_SetSystemVar
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:05 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 2

Am having problems with the above:

(1) Case SYSVAR_TvType with a value of anything but zero causes a crash

(2) Case SYSVAR_ScartType with a value of 1 does not change from Standard to External, but a value of 0 does change from External to Standard SCART type.

Anyone got any bright ideas what I might be doing wrong?

EMJB
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Programmes :: Silent Witness Series 15 6/6

Author: mstombs
Subject: Silent Witness Series 15 6/6
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:08 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 4

Wondering why my Toppy didn't record it, but given the subject they clearly pulled it and showed an old episode in its place

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g987f

You'd think the BBC would have the balls to actually put a comment on their website? - the series DVD launch has also had to be postponed.

Presumably it will be shown later in the year?
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TAPs: SecCache (UK) v0.4; MyInfo B5.6; EPG2MEI v0.96; Extend v1.7; QuickJump 1.72; MHEG On/Off A3; MyStuff 6.4; (EIT Sub v0.6 SnG);
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New users start here :: Set up and HDMI/Scart connections

Author: gordongaskin
Subject: Set up and HDMI/Scart connections
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:14 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 13

I have a 5810, a Panasonic Viera TV, a Philips VCR and a JVC DVD player. I have connected them all up using co-axial, scart cables and HDMI connection for the PVR. They all work OK and can record and playback. However I mostly use the 5810 and it is irritating when I am in the middle of watching a TV program and the PVR switches on to record a program that I have previously set up, it then changes the TV to the last channel the PVR was set to.

Is there any way that this can be prevented. Is it the way I have wired it all up? I want to continue watching the TV program without interruption and the PVR to record its program without switching the TV to the PVR AV channel.

Can anyone help?

Regards - Gordon Gaskin

Firmwares, enhancements and upgrades :: Toppy's and ADF

Author: halibut
Subject: Toppy's and ADF
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 4:54 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 22

I'm currently trying to get MyStuff copied to and working on a WD10EARS.

Although this isn't directly related to my issue (it doesn't fix it, anyway) while investigating my issue I've come across ADF on the western digital drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=120#tab10
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf

To summarise, the WD10EARS 'out of the box' uses 4k physical sectors, instead of the usual 512byte sectors.

This is now pretty standard across the WD range, and as far as I can tell other manufacturers are doing it too.

The WD disks (and probably others) have a jumper that allows you to set the disk to emulate 512byte sectors at the disk interface, while actual still using the underlying 4k physical sectors.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/1679#jumperRefered to on the WD disks as achieving full performance on xp, as xp fails to align its writes with the larger sectors degrading performance.

So...

Does anyone have any idea on what these 4k sectors will do to a toppy?
From what I can gather, lots of others are using wd10ears, and I can't find any reference to anyone using the jumper.

Opinions, etc, gladly received.
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TAPs: EPG2MEI v0.96; SecCache (UK) v0.4; EIT Sub (Game) v0.6; MyStuff 6.4; Extend v1.7; MHEG Control B2.1; MyInfo B5.5;
Sig generated by MyInfo on 10/5/12

New users start here :: Dead Toppy or not?

Author: Davechapmanglobal
Subject: Dead Toppy or not?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:39 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

My Toppy won't boot up. it seems to alternate between c4.56 and run and the screen remains totally blank. Is it dead? I have tried turning off for a while and then on again to no avail. I have read forum and tried pressing 0 on remote when booting but no good. just before it died i was watching a tv programme and recording and it kept showing a message saying something like validating/verifying files and folders. disc was quite full, possible near maximun but not sure about this. can't seem to do anything to get it going. please can someone advise. thanks.

Firmwares, enhancements and upgrades :: PATA -> SATA. Worth it? SSD?

Author: toasterman
Subject: PATA -> SATA. Worth it? SSD?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 5:28 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 5

Hi,
I posted on this board a while ago when I was experiencing a picture breakup problem (that thread here: http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18820 ).
I had the PSU replaced (which was good to do as a matter of course, from the looks of a lot of the problems reported here), but the problem remained. I replaced the hard drive, and it was (and has been, since) fine.
However, the drive is a really noisy old IDE drive, which is only 20-30gb (from memory - I haven't checked).

I've tried using TAPs to change the acoustic settings of the drive, but it remains noisy. It's just old, I think.
I think I've grown to like only having that 30gb of space, as it makes me watch/delete things, instead of storing up hundreds of hours of TV to lose when my hard drive develops a fault (a problem experienced by me once already, as well as my Humax and Sky+ friends, alike), and the Topfield has a USB data transfer rate somewhere between "it STILL isn't finished?" and "has it actually crashed or has it.. oh..no..it is still going", so I'll never get around to copying stuff off and backing it up properly elsewhere.

So is it worth converting to SATA?
Especially as some of you suggest the green/eco/slower speed options are quieter, cheaper, etc. and better designed for PVR use, than faster, more expensive (and noisier) drives.
I'm also a little put off by the suggestion (in the sata ide sticky thread) that you need to drill extra holes in things?

Then the actual drive choice seems a minefield. Is there an obvious way to know whether a drive will or won't work (a certain spec that the Topfield needs), or is it just a hope-for-the-best situation, if it isn't confirmed working by another forum member?
Ironically, the cheapest PATA drive I found on the first supplier I went to, was �65.. �28 more than the cheapest SATA drive (would be cheaper to buy a SATA and adapter, surely?). Are they generally more expensive than SATA these days? (It has been a long time since I've dabbled in IT components).
The cheapest drive of "any" kind I found was this SSD drive. http://www.ebuyer.com/284751-ocz-30gb-strata-msata-ssd-sata-ii-read-125mb-s-write-40mb-s-str-msata-30g - as hardly any of these seem to have been tested, I'd be wary. I've never used an SSD drive, but if I don't need the extra capacity offered by PATA/SATA, any reason not to? It would certainly be quiet.

Any thoughts much appreciated. Thanks.
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TF5800, IA On, TS On, F/W: 5.13.65T 14/4/2009 -AbSyTe+CwOtTdXl
TAPs: TAP Commander 1.34; UK Subtitle 1.9; Super PiP 1.1b; QuickJump 1.72; MyInfo B5.5;
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Firmwares, enhancements and upgrades :: TopfHDRW and WD10EARS

Author: halibut
Subject: TopfHDRW and WD10EARS
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 2:40 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 9

Hi folks,

I'm bringing this over to Firmwares, enhancements and upgrades from the MyStuff thread, as it's probably more apropriate here.

I've just bought a new WD10EARS 1tb disk because I need more space. I've formated it in the toppy (connected with the turbosat pata-sata bridge adapter), plugged it in an xp pc along with the original (manufacturer installed disk), and copied everything I could from the old disk to the new disk (The original disk had a few folders at the very top level that I couldn't copy, but they were empty apart form a 0 byte .lnk file).

When I then put the new disk back in the toppy it goes into a constant boot loop until it hits a vf&f. If I interupt the boot loop using 0, everything looks there. If I try and fire up MyStuff it reboots.

Any ideas?

Some extra detail in case it makes a difference:
topfHDRW version 0.2 with the topfHDRW patches applied that firebird released a month or so ago.

I notice that when I have the new wd10ears drive in the PC topfhdrw tells me I have two disks in Disk1 and Disk 3. Selecting Disk 3 the program tells me it has lost connection to the disk and shuts down.

I get this on the new disk from Topfield HDDoctor:
Info: TopfHDDoctor V0.21.1
Info: Testing PhysicalDrive1 (WDC WD10EARS-22Y5B1)
Info: Test started @ 2012-05-10 14:43:23
Info: Sectors per Cluster: Superblock: 15040, Backup Superblock: 15040, Calc: 15040, Size: 931.51 GB
OK: Superblock - Parameter area
OK: Superblock - Backup Parameter area
OK: Superblock - Root Directory
OK: Cluster 0 - Root Directory
Fixed: FAT: synchronized 1 entry
Fixed: Files - File '\DataFiles\__temprec__.ts' is larger than expected: changed size from 0 B to 14.69 MB
Info: Test finished @ 2012-05-10 14:59:45
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Info: Cluster size = 7.34 MB
Info: Used: 5974 files; 472 directories; 33700 clusters; 241.7 GB; 25.9%
Info: Free: 96187 clusters; 689.8 GB

The only other thing that stands out to me as a possible cause is that the WD10EARS has a jumper for use on XP. Given this is being copied on an XP machine, but isn't an XP disk.... Any idea of the jumper should be on or off?
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TAPs: EPG2MEI v0.96; SecCache (UK) v0.4; EIT Sub (Game) v0.6; MyStuff 6.4; Extend v1.7; MHEG Control B2.1; MyInfo B5.5;
Sig generated by MyInfo on 10/5/12

Computer connections :: Dying toppy hard drive?

Author: Cypher2012
Subject: Dying toppy hard drive?
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 2:18 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

My toppy was recently developing problems proably due to dodgy PSU which has been sent off to get fixed.

I thought as i had my toppy open I would get my recordings off the hard drive, while the PSU is being repaired.

However i have a problem, when i put it into a caddy the drive sounds like it is starting to spin up, but then stalls and starts spinning up again.
Is it dead? It was working fine inside the toppy before i took the drive out.....
and other drives work fine withing the caddy.

I guess all i can do is wait for the PSU to come back reassemble and hope it still works inside the toppy and transfer all the data off using USB?

Just wondering if i should be ordering a new hard drive to replace the current one.

MyStuff :: TopfHDRW and MyStuff

Author: halibut
Subject: TopfHDRW and MyStuff
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 1:52 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 42

Are there any known issues copying MyStuff from one disk to another with TopfHDRW?

I've just bought a new WD10EARS 1tb disk, formated it in the toppy (connected with the turbosat pata-sata bridge adapter), plugged it in an xp pc along with the original (manufacturer installed disk), and copied everything from the old disk to the new disk.

When I then put the new disk back in the toppy it goes into a constant boot loop until it hits a vf&f. If I interupt the boot loop using 0, everything looks there. If I try and fire up MyStuff it reboots.

Any ideas? Or am I missing something/is this not possible?
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TAPs: EPG2MEI v0.96; SecCache (UK) v0.4; EIT Sub (Game) v0.6; MyStuff 6.4; Extend v1.7; MHEG Control B2.1; MyInfo B5.5;
Sig generated by MyInfo on 10/5/12

MyStuff :: MyStuff - Feature Request/Suggestion

Author: litton4
Subject: MyStuff - Feature Request/Suggestion
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 7:03 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 25

A lot of the time, I find myself using an appropriate Power Search to capture all recordings for a particular series, to build up a full "library" of all episodes (for later copy to offline storage).

NCIS is a case in point.

However, I often find it difficult to separate out the programmes into their respective seasons, so I can file them approprately.

It would be really useful if "Autofile" had an option to append the series CRID to the folder name, so most of this work would be done automatically.

Possible? Useful? What do people think?

Any chance of this appearing in a future release??
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Dave Condliffe

TF5810, TS On, F/W: MS6 Recommended F/W 12/9/2009 +UUu
TAPs: MyInfo B5.6; Extend v1.7; Font Manager 1.0d; MyStuff 6.4; EPG2MEI v0.96; SecCache (UK) v0.4; EIT Sub (Game) v0.6;
Sig generated by MyInfo on 4/2/12