Copying from Humax HD digital PVR

[TimStannard]

Thanks for the additional info Peter.
If you want to burn a video DVD, you'll need it in MPEG2 format eventually (which will be repackaged by your DVD authoring software as VOB files), so converting to avi would be an unnecessary additional conversion.

Unless you want to edit the result in any way or are convinced that you can achieve better quality by utilising your PC, I'd be inclined to agree with you about going down the simpler route of a DVD recorder as you know this works. I'm afraid I'm unable to advise on software for converting from whatever .ts format you have to MPEG (or avi or ...) as this si not something I've done.

[Peter Copestake]

you'll need it in MPEG2 format eventually

Yes, hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
Peter.

[Peter Copestake]

Thanks again to all who helped.
Problem solved!
Copy to memory stick > copy to NLE computer > copy to external hard drive > plug this into Humax and play. Only problem - I only copied the big file (.ts). The lesser ones are needed for some functions, information, ability to fast-forward, for example. They are very small files and could easily have been copied at the same time as they were on the memory stick. The copies take a matter of 2 minutes for two hours. No doubt I could have converted the .ts one to MPEG2 as Tim suggested but (though I'd got lost in the process), the original idea was to a special big hard drive.
I had a 1Tb hard drive in the Humax and you may wonder why that was not enough.
Well, it seemed to be filling alarmingly even though I was taking stuff off it.
Because somehow or other I had stupidly copied a load (319GB) of NLE files onto it from the external HD when I first started experimenting!! They had finished up in a folder with the programmes on Chatsworth.
Peter.