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How to Use a USB Flash Drive for Broadcasting and Recording Appliances to Copy Recorded File

Epiphan appliances (VGA Broadcaster Lite, VGA Broadcaster Standard, VGA Broadcaster Pro, VGA Recorder Lite, VGA Recorder Standard, VGA Recorder Pro, Lecture Recorder and VGA Grid) allow a user to save recorded data to internal solid state memory.

Epiphan products equipped with USB connectors can also be used to copy recorded files or make a backup copy of your files using an external USB flash drive formatted with one partition in the following file systems: FAT32, ext3, ext2, ISO 9660, HFS. This is a great feature for professional AV service providers that want to provide a copy of the presentation to the speaker before they leave the presentation venue.

To use a USB flash drive with your appliance, follow the steps below after you have successfully installed your appliance for recording.

Step 1: Connection

You can connect a flash drive to the appliance any time – no matter whether it is functioning or not. Stick a flash drive into a USB port on your Epiphan appliance and press lightly. The stick fits into the port only one way. After inserting, the appliance will recognize the stick, however, this occurs without any user notification whatsoever.

Step 2: Recording

The Epiphan appliances copy the previously recorded files to the inserted USB flash drive starting from the oldest record to the newest. The flash drive’s LED (if any) will be blinking indicating data transfer. The appliance copies data to the flash drive until there is not enough storage space for additional files.

Due to speed limitations flash drives are not capable of recording data on the fly. This means that while the previously recorded data captured by the appliance on its internal solid state memory will be backed-up on the flash drive, the currently recording file cannot be copied until the file is closed and available for copying.

Once the data has been copied, safely remove the flash drive. To check its free storage, files that have been copies and their size, insert the drive into a computer and see its properties.

The image below is a screenshot from the Web admin interface. Recording is enabled. The already recorded files are listed.