Hi all, well to cut a long story short, I moved out of my parents a few years ago and left my sky connection behind. I'm in a flat and the tv reception is rubbish but me & my mrs don't want to sign up for a year to sky because we don't think we will be there for a year.
I still go to my parents quite often - what I want to do is find a way that I can rip things from my sky box, onto an external hdd and take home with me.
I hooked up a spare PC with windows media centre on it, and tried to use the sky box as the tuner for recording but I could not get the infra red dongle thing to control the box properly so I think Ill stick with using the sky+ for recordings.
The PC has AV inputs so thats not a problem, but I don't know what software if any would encode the video coming in and make it a decent size? I would like this process to be as easy as possible, and fast
as I don't want to be messing around in my old bedroom, I don't mind manually recording the programs to the PC though, but it would be nice if they were a sensible size - windows media centre makes a 1 hour program about 2 gb!!
any advice would be excellent
I still go to my parents quite often - what I want to do is find a way that I can rip things from my sky box, onto an external hdd and take home with me.
I hooked up a spare PC with windows media centre on it, and tried to use the sky box as the tuner for recording but I could not get the infra red dongle thing to control the box properly so I think Ill stick with using the sky+ for recordings.
The PC has AV inputs so thats not a problem, but I don't know what software if any would encode the video coming in and make it a decent size? I would like this process to be as easy as possible, and fast
as I don't want to be messing around in my old bedroom, I don't mind manually recording the programs to the PC though, but it would be nice if they were a sensible size - windows media centre makes a 1 hour program about 2 gb!!any advice would be excellent
