“Can you save the shows to an external drive to view on a laptop or computer? Are they standard .mp4 files?”
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You can attach the external hard drive to your Windows PC and use the Linux Filesystem for Windows program from Paragon systems. Once you start the software it will see the drive in file explorer as an ext4 formatted drive and can then browse the files and directories on the drive and copy them to another drive. You can also access the files on the external drive using a web browser by entering the URL http://192.168.0.105:18080/pvr. You need to use the IP address of your tablo instead of the 192.168.0.105, you find the address in the settings in the tablo app. When enter the URL you will get a list of the recording id's which aren't very usefull so you have to navigate down to seg directory that contains the multiple .ts files and play one of them to see if it is the video you want to download. You can play the video using the vlc player click on the record id, the the pl directory and right clicking on the playlist.m3u8 file and select copy link address. The in VLC you select media then open network stream and the paste the link you copied into URL then select play on the bottom right of the pop up. I think you can also select the down arrow and it will give the option to convert. When find the record id of the video you want to download/transfer you can use same URL of the playlist.m3u8 file with fmmpeg program to convert all the .ts files to an .mp4 filel. Here is an example of the command line: ffmpeg -i http://192.168.0.105:18080/pvr/107452/pl/playlist.m3u8 -c:v copy -c:a copy 107452.mp4 This is all one line and will convert the video off the tablo to the .mp4. I haven't figures out how to get the videos off the internal 128mb because the web browser doesn't show them in the lists. I also noticed that you are watching a channel on another device you can also watch in the VLC player on you PC. by copying the link address of the playlist.m3u8 file of the record id's that are only 2 to 3 digit numbers.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I assume it is similar to the previous versions of Tablo - recordings are saved as a proprietary file type. I've used a third party app on my phone, ota2go, to convert the files for viewing on other devices.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.From my research, you are unable to access the Tablo memory or the external drive to export recordings like you could on "legacy" Tablos. Plugging the external drive directly into a PC results in the drive not being recognized. This makes the 4th Gen a deal breaker for me.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.There is no software yet to extract the files, they are not mp4.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It has built in memory, plus you can plug in a usb drive to add more memory.
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