Seeking help in creating video clips

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Try this: How to Transfer Video From a Dish DVR to an External Hard Drive | Science - Opposing Views
Though I've never been able to pull off what you're trying to do with DISH. DirecTV, I think, is the service that makes you buy a program from them to download video you've DVR'ed. I tried what that link above suggests and never was able to do it. Might be a separate unit you need to buy for DISH also, not sure.
Interested in any other responses of successes.

Unless Dish has changed the way it works, the videos copied to the external hard drive are not in a form readable by your PC. They're encrypted such that they can only be played back on the DVR it was recorded from or another one activated on the same account. It is only intended to be able to increase the capacity of the DVR or move files between two dish network systems on your account.