Alright i got a video clip on my SKY HD, how do i upload it to my pc like people on youtube do??

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Alrighty, you know you see on youtube clips in perfect HD as if you have just watched it on tv on a hd channel, (and before you ask no i don't want to upload some tv show to youtube, "ain't no body got time for that" haha.)

Iv recorded something on my sky HD box, and it's actually something kinda treasured to me and my family, so that sky hd box will always in my family, or etleast the hdd will be, but im wanting to know, how do people upload a video from there sky box to there pc without ripping there box appart getting the hdd, and transfering the files to there pc then converting them im guessing to a video format etc ?

if all that makes sense that is lol.

thanks :)
 
I don't think it's possible. A lot of these perfect rips use a hacked Freeview HD box as a lot of these have weaker security than Sky boxes.
 
I don't know how the stream data is captured on a Sky set-top box but chances are its encapsulation is encrypted and can't be read by third party devices. Not easily anyway.

People who upload these videos use bit stream capture cards + card reader or just capture a HDMI signal from the set-top box.
 
Not sure if Sky has this, but Virgin Media has a function that lets you back up your recordings to video. It outputs via SCART, so you can then record to anything that takes SCART/S-video/Composite, such as VCR, DVD recorder, or a capture card. Sky might let you do something similar.

The best way is to ditch those ridiculously limited Sky boxes and simply use an Enigma2 box which lets you save the transport stream (.TS) with a push of a button. TS is MPEG compatible so can be played back on any PC.
 
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I do it like this...

SkyHD ---> SCART ----> DVD Recorder ---> PC

Unfortunately it doesn't allow recording in HD.
 
Don't forget, if you change your Sky subscription and ditch the channel that you recorded it from then you'll lose the ability to play it back.
 
I think you are going to have to cam capture it. Beg borrow or steal the best quality HD camcorder you can find, put it on a tripod and point it at the TV.

Obviously quality will be lost but you'll be surprised that the results wont be *that* bad.
 
Do a search for Black Magic intensity pro.

Actually, scratch that. You obviously want to record through HDMI. No chance I'm afraid. All content through HDMI is encyrpted. That's one of the reasons they dumped component.
 
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robfosters said:
Do a search for Black Magic intensity pro.

Actually, scratch that. You obviously want to record through HDMI. No chance I'm afraid. All content through HDMI is encyrpted. That's one of the reasons they dumped component.
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Look towards cheap Chinese capture cards which completely bypass hdcp.
 
Talking to a friend of mine last week who wants to do somethimg similar apparently some of the cheapo Chinese HDMI splitters strip the HDCP encryption out if you get the right ones and are a lot cheaper than a HD Fury.
 
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