Fios DVR Help?

Anyone have Fios?

Want to transfer recordings from my Fios DVR to my PC, anyone know how to do it?

 

Really, that sucks!

 

HMMMmmmm

I'm thinking there has got to be some kinda of hack out there for this,anyone know??

 

If your Fios box has a firewire port and you have a mac with firewire you can do it. I did it a number of years ago so I don't remember the specifics. But I believe the firewire ports are required to output the current video stream. Basically whatever was being displayed gets dumped to the firewire port in a raw format. The resulting file is massive.

I'm guessing this isn't what you are looking for though. You can't just copy the recording over. You have to play it on the box and then you can record the video stream on the Mac. If you want to do this you're better off getting an EyeTV or Hauppage video capture device.

 

The FIOS menu 1.9 that is being release right now will be changing the DVR functionality significantly. You will be able to hook up an external HD to expand storage. However, to take advantage of these new functions you need to get a 7232-P2 DVR box.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=20304164#post20304164