I’m considering investing in the HD HomeRun Quatro for live TV/DVR via Plex. I’m doing this as a possibly way to move off a TiVo setup, as eventually either the hardware will die (a TiVo HD circa 2008 with various fixes and upgrades over the years) or the TiVo service will go away. I currently use cTiVo on my Mac to automatically copy stuff off the TiVo, convert it to std format, and add to my iTunes library (which is also my Plex source).
Is it possible to copy DVR recordings off HD HomeRun (assuming I am storing to a standard hard drive) and move them to iTunes in a similar way to cTiVo? Preferably, this would be an automated process where the HD Homerun DVR is monitored for new recordings of Show X, processing them as they arrive.
Any info on this would be appreciated.
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I am not familiar with ctivo but nothing is ever stored on the hdhomerun. If you record something it is stored on a hard drive in a standard format. You could use a post processing script in Plex to manipulate the recording after it’s done which could potentially accomplish what you are looking for.
Understood that the files are stored on a hard drive, not the HD HomeRun itself. What format are the recordings created in? Are they proprietary? Can they just be moved over to an iTunes library as is? Is metadata such as episode name, description, etc stored in the recording file?
They are stored as .TS files which is a standard mpeg format, not sure what iTunes considers standard but any player I use can play the files.
The file name has the show name, episode name and there is no metadata but again with a post processing script you could create a metadata file with whatever data you wanted.
I’d be cautious of the Plex DVR. I’ve been playing with it the last 2 months. It’s reasonably good but with little hiccups here and there that lead to a larger learning curve and more hands on time than a typical set top DVR setup.
