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

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of and
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:51 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] can't record a full movie...
>
>
> 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.


What type of filesystem are you recording to?  Some filesystems have a 2GB
limit on file sizes.  Don't use VFAT/FAT/FAT32 (locally or over a network)
as your video storage partition.

-JAC