I'm owning a Loewe television set (with the little older SL420 chassis), which has a built-in harddisk allowing to record broadcastings (Loewe DR+). The recordings can also be copied onto an external harddisk. A while ago I wrote a little Perl command line utility that will list information about the recordings on the harddisk. Feel free to use this utility for the recordings of your Loewe television set:
- Perl loewe_ls utility (right-click and save-as…)
Store the utility in your bin/ directory and make it executable.
The Loewe television set with built-in DR+ recording provides an NFS export of this data, which can be easily mounted from a Linux computer. The DR+ data on an external harddisk might be using the ExFAT filesystem, which can also be mounted on other operating systems.
Mounting the Loewe DR+ Internal Harddisk
Any user on a Linux computer can find the NFS export of the Loewe television set in the following way. If the television set, which of course needs to be switched on, has a name in the local network, e.g.:
user@host$ showmount -e loewetv.fritz.box
Alternatively by IP address, e.g.:
user@host$ showmount -e 192.168.178.204
This will show something like:
Export list for loewetv.fritz.box:
/mnt/lo_004 *
Only as root this can then be mounted:
root@host$ mount -t nfs loewetv.fritz.box:/mnt/lo_004 /mnt
ATTENTION: Don't forget to unmount before switching off the television set!
root@host$ umount /mnt
Using the loewe_ls Utility
A short overview of the options:
user@host$ loewe_ls -h
Usage: loewe_ls [-dfhlW] [path...]
-d Show (useless?) duplicate title information.
-f Sort by *.DAT files instead of by virtual folder (if present) and title.
This should be the chronological order of recordings.
-h Show this help.
-l Show long output.
-W No wrapping of long lines.
Path defaults to "." and is expected to contain *.DAT files.
*.DAT files can also be specified explicitly.
Example:
loewe_ls -l /mnt/Video\ DR+/
Listing DR+ content in short format:
user@host$ loewe_ls /mnt/Video\ DR+/
Resulting in something like:
...
Barbarella; Spielfilm USA 1968 [00000929]
Der Swimmingpool; Spielfilm Frankreich/Italien 1969 (La piscine) [00000638]
Serpico; Spielfilm USA/Italien 1973 (Serpico) [00000971]
Traumziele: Die Bretagne - Frankreichs rauer Westen [00000835]
...
Listing DR+ content in long format:
user@host$ loewe_ls -l /mnt/Video\ DR+/
Resulting in something like (German television here):
...
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FOLDER:
TITLE: Der Swimmingpool
TITLE2: Spielfilm Frankreich/Italien 1969 (La piscine)
DATE: 2021/01/06 20:15 - 22:15 (02:00)
CHAIN: arte HD
TYPE: Video
LANGUAGE: deu:stereo, fra:französisch, mul:Originalton, mis:ohne Audiodeskription
SUBTITLE: deu:, fra:, deu:
TELETEXT:
DESCR: Marianne und Jean-Paul verleben ihre Ferien im Landhaus eines verreisten Freundes bei St.
Tropez. In malerischer Abgeschiedenheit frönen sie ihrer Liebe und Leidenschaft. Doch
dann kündigt sich unerwartet ein alter Freund der beiden an.
FILE: "/mnt/Video DR+/00000638.DAT"
VIDEO DIR: "/mnt/Video DR+/00000638/"
SIZE: 12725 MiB (7 transport stream files)
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FOLDER:
TITLE: Serpico
TITLE2: Spielfilm USA/Italien 1973 (Serpico)
DATE: 2024/11/23 23:30 - 01:35 (02:05)
CHAIN: rbb Brandenburg HD
TYPE: Video
LANGUAGE: deu:stereo, deu:ohne Audiodeskription, deu:Dolby Digital 2.0, qks:Klare Sprache
SUBTITLE: deu:
TELETEXT:
DESCR: Serpico, ein junger Streifenpolizist, muss bald nach seinem Dienstantritt feststellen,
dass die New Yorker Polizei Schmiergelder kassiert und dass Korruption und Bestechung an
der Tagesordnung sind. Serpicos Sinn für Gerechtigkeit ist verletzt und er möchte die
kriminellen Missstände in den eigenen Reihen melden. Doch Serpico wird von seinen
Kollegen unter Druck gesetzt, denn sie dulden keinen Außenseiter und Verräter wie ihn.
Bei seinen Vorgesetzten trifft Frank Serpico auf taube Ohren. Dennoch gibt er sein Ziel,
die Missstände öffentlich zu machen, nicht auf.
FILE: "/mnt/Video DR+/00000971.DAT"
VIDEO DIR: "/mnt/Video DR+/00000971/"
SIZE: 7891 MiB (4 transport stream files)
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