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Based on the article here, I've been trying to copy a recorded video filefrom my XFinity DVR (digital video recorder) to my Windows PC. https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-do-i-transfer-files-from-my-comcast-dvr
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The model# of our XFinity-provided DVR box is 'XG1-A'. I've purchased a (blue) USBcable, with USB-A male connectors on each end.[ The article above mentions using either USB-cable or a firewire-cable, butthis newer-model XG1-A doesn't have a firewire port. ]
From the results of my attempts so far, I'm wondering if this ability tonavigate and copy files on this DVR unit is purposely NOT (no longer) supportedby Comcast. (The date of the article is March 2015.)
My symptom/indications are as follows: (1) When I attach a Windows-10 laptop via the USB-cable, I get absoluteno indication that Windows is seeing any 'usb-attachment' event/signal. (2) When I attach a Windows-7 laptop via the USB-cable, I do seesomething happen. i.e. after a few seconds, I see the mouse-cursor switchto showing a half-inch in diameter blue-circular cursor which lasts a a fewseconds, then disappears for a few seconds, then re-appears for a few moreseconds, and then disappears a second time. That's it...no msgs nor dialogsindicating an explicit attempt to establish a> 3 Answers
After poking around, I got some informed info back from a friend whopreviously worked in set-top box industry. He said:
About recorded media these days…
Even if you were able to find some way to retrieve video files from your set-top box, I do not believe you would be able to play them. Most videos these days are encrypted and simply copying the files won’t allow you to play them on other devices. This is intentional as Hollywood and content providers are very worried about their videos being copied around. As you know, copying a digital file loses no information – it is a perfect copy each time. The content providers do not like that.
Content providers were working on a digital watermark/stamp embedded in the video stream so they could tell where the content originated from. This information is embedded in the video macroblocks and is not visible when watching the video. However, should a digital copy be made (or even an analog copy back to digital), that information can be retrieved and will allow content providers to see who originally viewed/recorded the content. So, if the video showed up online somewhere or was discovered on a system, they can backtrack it to the set top box and determine its origin. It was very cool technology and was patented for helping to catch pirates.
I also know that in some cases, providers do not actually store the video on your set top box. For example, if you DVR a show that was broadcast, only a pointer is saved on your set top box and the actual video is stored back on their server. When you go to watch it, the set top box knows to retrieve the originally recorded material on the backend server. This helps keep DVR storage down on your set top box which keeps cost down. Note, that the watermark embedding happens on the video transmit to your set top box so if you were to succeed in recording it, your provider can still tell where it came from.
So trying to copy the actual files may be an exercise in futility. Even if you were able to make a copy, they may not be playable on any device other than your set top box.
And, after digesting my friend's feedback, I also had a chat last weekwith a Hauppauge tech support person, and he explained that the only guaranteed unencrypted stream coming out of a provider's set-top box these days is what comes out of its 'cable-out' port, during playback of some previously-recorded program.
Based on all the above info, it appears that the only feasible approach going forward would be to use such a PVR (Hauppauge or whatever), and grab the cable-out playback stream.
Hope this helps others. Cheers...
For your info, the USB port on the XFinity DVR is disabled and there's no way to enable it. That's why nothing happens when you connect a USB cable to it and your computer. Apparently, the only way to copy a video from the XFinity DVR is to play it back and record the playback with some capture card/device.
You can take the box apart, remove the internal hard drive, plug it into your windows computer using an external enclosure of some sort, sata data/power to usb. The computer won't assign drive letters or recognize the hard drive on it's own. The volumes are hidden and can be shown using diskpart but it recognizes them as raw data and will tell you to format it if you assign a drive letter to any of the 5 partitions.
I got around this by using a data recovery program called Ease US Data Recovery. It's pretty amazing and will work on any storage format that you plug into a windows machine. This software will also recovery any data that ever existed on the disk even after erased and it puts it back in it's original file structure format and labels applied to the data before it was erased which is not the norm for data recovery software.
But that's not what you want here, you want to simply get the currently stored data off the disk and backed up on your computer. It will do that too. Cheers.
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Items you will need
Non-copyright protected DVD
CD-ROM drive
Downloading DVDs to a laptop is relatively easy, and you don't have to have special DVD software to do so. Files can be copied and downloaded directly from the DVD's direct file folder location once the DVD is inserted into the computer. Although the full downloading process varies based on the size of the DVD's files, the actual procedure is not complicated.
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Insert the DVD into the laptop's CD-ROM drive compartment.
Click the 'Start' button. Click the 'Computer' or 'My Computer' (depending on your operating system) folder tab to access Windows Explorer.
Right-click the 'DVD Drive (D:)' tab below the 'Devices with Removable Storage' section of the Windows Explorer screen.
Select the 'Explore' option in the collapsible menu that will appear. A new window will open and display all of the DVD's contents and files.
Drag your mouse over all of the files in the new window to highlight each of the DVD's content files. Right-click the highlighted files and select the 'Copy' action.
Open the file folder location where you want to download the files to your computer.
Right-click inside the folder and select the 'Paste' action to download the DVD's files to your laptop's hard drive. When the elapsed download time estimator disappears, this will be your indication that the download process is complete.
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If you cannot download the DVD with these steps, you may need to incorporate a DVD ripping software (see Resources).
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Downloading the DVD to your computer may be rather easy, but playback may be problematic, depending on the type of media player you have. In most cases, the DVD's files will need to be converted for successful playback on the computer. (See Resources for a list of converters.)
If the DVD has copyright-protected content, you may not be able to download its files to your computer's hard drive.
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