![]() ![]() They've been using Rafael Micro R836 tuners for a long time.Yes, Amazon still has iViews in stock for under $30. The newer firmware (which you'd probably get on a new unit) even fixes the reboot bug! I tested the version for the 3200:Version "1903" for the 3200 had a bug with time-shifting, but the version for the 3500 didn't have that bug.Not really. ![]() I believe the latest is 3500STBII-1903.rar but CC works at least as far back as 3500STBII-1511-EPG-Fix.rar, so it's been pretty stable over almost five years (19 are year&month the box was manufactured and are the first four digits of the serial number). Confusingly, iView has released several bug fixes and small enhancements without changing the version number Instead they just change the file date. ![]() velvetfoot and valvashon did the research to figure out how to avoid the bug. I have had CC working on playback with these units, but also ran into the reboot bug. But be prepared to wait from 2 to 3 or more minutes for each minute of output MP4 (HQ Surround is a "slow" but very accurate transcode), so transcoding a 2-hour movie is an overnight job. The results are spectacular for both video and audio, better than the original recordings (strange, huh?) or OTA viewing. Leave everything else at the default settings, and create a custom Preset for each input file coding that you have recorded on the iView ("iView720p60fsurround", etc.). So there's a few other things I set in Video, Dimensions, Subtitle, and Filters so the video is exactly the same frame rate, interlaced/progressive (only use the default comb filter for interlaced), and size as the original video, and remove any and all subtitle tracks (unless of course you want them). But here's the dead-nuts trick to this transcode: use the "HQ Surround" Preset for your input file (surround sound may not mean anything to you, means everything to me), and in the Audio tab, remove all selected tracks except the one with AC3 5.1 channels, and set the track encoder to "E-AC3 Passthru".Īpparently the iView MTS files use Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) encoding, and for the fastest and best transcode, you want to only transcode the video stream, and allow the original audio track to be resynced to the new video. So I tried to transcode the MTS files to MP4 using Handbrake, and ran into many audio problems doing so. I'm running into "issues" with the transcodes, and in fooling around I went back to all these iView MTS recordings that have just piled up because they don't fit into my Windows Media Center "workflow". Captions!Ĭlick to expand.You touched a nerve here since I'm transcoding about 9TB of media center content from MPEG-2 to MP4 using Handbrake or whatever works. Confirm that the CC isn't on during TV viewing, start your playback and then turn the CC on. To get this to work, shut the CC off during TV viewing and then manually shut the iView off and then back on. I figured that the CC wouldn't work during a recording and it's not an issue- I was merely explaining exactly what it was and was not doing. I'll keep trying it tomorrow and see if it's consistent. When viewing a recording, CC should work. In TV viewing mode, make sure CC is 'off'. It acts the same as the one that it shipped with, above. ![]() It works great except for one thing that I thought was fixed. Below is the only advice I've found for dealing with it hope it helps: Quote: I've experienced that bug too, as have others. Holds that freeze frame then reboots the unit, going back to live TV coming in from the tuner. When I go to play back any recording, either from yesterday or 2017 for example, it shows the "CC ON" display and then freezes the picture about 3 or 4 seconds later. That means they won't work during time-shifting or chase play, since those require recording. So where did I get this software? Would re-loading this help? What format for the flash drive? It doesn't say anywhere in the instructions. The software version I found on their website is dated which seems to be earlier than the version I have. It used to play back with closed captions at first they weren't very good but I did a firmware update at some point and they got much better (depending on which channel you had recorded from some captions were better than others).įor the last year or so putting the captions on during playback will just freeze it up. If the captions are on and I start recording, it records just fine but it doesn't show captions while it's recording. I can view the closed captions fine through the unit when not recording. ![]()
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