Lost recordings after Xtreme upgrade

[ruckus]

I have searched for the answer to this but still have not come up with the fix. After I did the Xtreme upgrade I can no longer view my 50+ movies I had recorded. I know this has something to do with the noscramble. And I've tried to disable the module but I still am not having any success. Can someone give me the commands or correct method to get these records back.

Thanks
--ruckus

[captain_video]

It has nothing to do with noscramble. If you loaded a new 25Xtreme image on your hard drive with existing recordings on the drive, they are all history. There is no way to recover them. Noscramble is used to turn scrambling on and off and nothing more. I'm betting that none of your shows are listed in the Now Playing screen, correct? The recording history was wiped clean when you did the 2.5Xtreme installation and, sadly, there is no way to recover the shows.

The only way that you can upgrade your DTivo and preserve your recordings is to copy the complete contents of your existing drive to a new drive and then run MFSTools to expand the partition boundary of the new drive. You can also add a 2nd drive when doing this. Unfortunately, installing or restoring a new image will wipe your recordings.

[ruckus]

No, I just did Kraven's Xtreme upgrade. The shows are all still listed in the Now Playing. Only now when I try to go view them it tells me the the recording is corrupted. I think I read somewhere that when NoScramble is turned on all the previous viewings become unavailable. I don' t have a need for NoScramble right now so I'd rather keep it off and save my old recordings.

This may not be the exact case. Does Kravens' Upgrade corrupt all saved recordings? If so that's disappointing that it is not more clear. All I really wanted to add was noppv.tcl.

Thanks

[BubbleLamp]

You need to comment out the noscramble lines in rc.remote-login (red #'s are what to add)


echo "Enabling Showcases"
if [ -e /tvbin/sc.tcl ]; then
/tvbin/sc.tcl &
fi

#echo "Unscrambling"
#if [ -e /lib/modules/noscramble.o ]; then
# insmod -f /lib/modules/noscramble.o
#fi

echo "Remounting / ReadOnly"
mount -o remount,ro /

and reboot. Or you can try to unload it from the bash prompt, but I hear that doesn't always work.

[captain_video]

Sorry, I thought you meant you loaded up the full 2.5Xtreme, not just the upgrade. You can unload noscramble from the command prompt but you may have to do it 3 or 4 times before it works. Type in:

cd /sbin
ln -s insmod rmmod
rmmod noscramble

Press Enter at the end of each line. Select a show in the Now Playing list and try to play it. If you get an error message indicating that no video was present at the time it was recorded, try the last line again. Keep trying until the recorded program plays OK. Just remember, if you want to record any future shows with the intention of extracting them for recording to DVD, SVCD, or whatever, you will have to turn scrambling back off again. Just type in:

insmod /lib/modules/noscramble.o

You should only have to do this once. If you are not recording for the purpose of video extraction then you can leave scrambling turned on all the time. You cannot extract any programs that have been recorded with scrambling turned on. If you think you may want to do this in the future with any upcoming recordings, it's best to turn scrambling off and only turn it back on to view previously recorded shows that are scrambled.

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by captain_video
Type in:

cd /sbin
ln -s insmod rmmod
rmmod noscramble


Point of clarification. The first two lines above only need to be executed once, not each time you want to use the rmmod command. Also, if you want to see if the module has unloaded, type cat /proc/modules. It will spit out something like this:

[/]$ cat proc/modules
noscramble 1136 0
ax88796 4864 0 (unused)
mixaud 5872 1
pxmpegdecode 65260 0 (unused)
therm 1164 0 (unused)
fan 976 0
oslink 36700 12
fpgacombo 15568 6 [oslink]
i2c 10464 0 [pxmpegdecode therm]

[Pr.Sinister]

Also, if you want to have an easier go at unloading, i find
that putting 1 tuner on channel 0 and the other on channel 1
(or any channels that don't exist), the module will unload
without as many retrys...

-Pr.

[RUTGERS_FAN]

I edited the rc.remote file as decribed above, but all the shows are still coming up as error- was not able to record, no signal or soemthing like that.

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by RUTGERS_FAN
I edited the rc.remote file as decribed above, but all the shows are still coming up as error- was not able to record, no signal or soemthing like that.

Your error message doesn't have anything to do with noscramble. Sounds like you have a tuner/LNB/cable/card issue.

[RUTGERS_FAN]

I was wrong, the fix did work. Somehow I managed to not # out one of the lines. It 's not a card issue or anyhting like that becasue I already watched all of those shows. Once I installed Kraven, I got that error, but now they are back.