[mythtv-users] can't record a full movie...

and hons at rcn.com
Sun Sep 28 21:51:09 EDT 2003


I'm still having this problem.
30 -60 min shows records fine, but movies often gets truncated at 
around 1 hour and 20 minutes...I have no idea why so any suggestion 
would be very welcome.

Nothing seems to freeze as I can view the file in mythtv playback and 
the mythweb access is still up..... and there is nothing in the 
mythbackend.log or messages.

rgds
anders
On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 07:39 AM, and wrote:

> I'm using ext3...
> anders
> On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 11:48 PM, Christian Hack wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
>>> Sent: Monday, 15 September 2003 4:35 PM
>>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>>> Subject: [mythtv-users] can't record a full movie...
>>>
>>>
>>> I think someone else have had this problem, but couldn't find
>>> anything
>>> in the archive so please excuse me if it's a tedious repeat.
>>>
>>> I seem to be having a problem recording programs longer than
>>> ~1:30.....
>>> the recording just ends and there are no messages in
>>> mythbackend.log or
>>> messages.
>>> Everything seems to be running (front/back/ivtv). However the file
>>> stops growing even if the front end is telling me a recording is in
>>> progress....
>>>
>>> The recorded file was around 2.2GB and my ringbuffer was set to 5gb
>>> will 50% fill, so my guess is that it might  have something
>>> to do with
>>> this. Does the buffer have to be larger than the program?
>>>
>>> I'm using epia m10k, pvr250-rev1, rh9, 2.4.20-8 with via drivers.
>>>
>>
>> The ringbuffer and the recorded file are completely unrelated. The
>> ringbuffer is only used when watching TV. The recorded file is only 
>> used
>> when recording. When watching a recording you are watching from the
>> recorded file, when watching live TV, you are watching from the
>> ringbuffer. Therefore the size of the ringbuffer has nothing to do 
>> with
>> the recordings.
>>
>> What FS are you using? When you say 2.2GB is that 2.2 x 10^9 bytes?
>> 2,147,483,648 bytes (2 gigabytes) is the limit of some file systems -
>> particularly Windows FAT. 2GB also seems to be the limit of Samba
>> mounted file systems even if the FS at the other end is capable of
>> larger files.
>>
>> CH
>>
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