Other DVRs make it really hard to get at my recordings elsewhere. I want to be able to get at them to store them on my mobile device to watch on the train or plane, share them with friends or family (e.g. Saving to a large flash stick or external drive, store on a one drive or Dropbox folder) or archive long term.
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I would also like to see this feature.
Also would like, and perhaps to use something like cTIVO to create a method to recompress them into mp4 for optimized storage.
We totally plan on giving you an easy way to access your recorded files to use in any way you’d like. We’re long time DVR users and Media Center fans/users. Having easy access to your recorded files to do anything you want with is one of the reasons we’ve always wanted to do this.
One of the main goals of Channels DVR is to let you do whatever you want with your media.
@OutFamilySpot oh cool, I’ve never seen cTiVo before. I’ve played with kmttg in the past to try to get things off my TiVos and into something that gives me more freedom, but it’s all sort of a pain. With Channels DVR, you’ll be able to just see your recorded files right in a directory.
so let me ask an for this. If I put a manual process around compressing the MPEG file to a MP4, and keep the name the same, would you enable the DVR function to use that file for playback. That way I could compress them, and still have them playback through channels until I dispose, etc…
Yes, if the file name remained the same things would “just work”.
Transcoding to reduce file size is a common use case though, so we are also looking to see how we might be able to do that automatically.
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At the moment I use a My Cloud 2tb NAS in congunction with the recently discontinued HDHR/Channels DVR Beta. There’s a folder on the NAS which is where all the recordings are stored. Moving a recording from the HDHR recordings folder to my Plex or Infuse media player folders to keep long term is just a case of “cut” & “paste”
If it can be kept to a similar (extremely simple) way that would be the dogs bo!!@cks.
If you can allow for the name to stay the same but the file extension to change (i.e. Flintstone-S01E01.mpeg to Flintstones-S01E01.mp4) that would be really awesome… Then I can put a trigger on the directory for what to transcode. 
One question I have is the DVR space requirements for saving MPEG 2 content. Transcoding to MP4/H.264 would significantly reduce space for recordings. It would be great of the Apple TV4 or the DVR server had the capacity to transcode real time but what are your thoughts about supporting the hardware transcoding of the HDHomeRun Extend? If the Extend does the transcoding then no extra work for the DVR client or server.
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