[mythtv-users] Can't record more than 1 and a half hours of Live TV

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Apr 8 02:56:34 UTC 2007


On Apr 7, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if you could give me any hints as to why I can't get  
> MythTV to
> record any more than 1 hour 32 minutes of Live TV. Is there a  
> setting I need
> to change?
>
> If I goto "Watch Recorded Programs" after it has completed a 5 hour
> recording, it shows the file is 13GB and 5:12:00 in length, but  
> when I look
> at the file on the drive it is only 4GB and I can only watch  
> 1:32:42 of video.
>
> I'm using MythTV 0.20 on Ubuntu Linux 2.6.19 kernel, and have a 500  
> GB XFS
> partition for recordings. Encoder is a Avermedia A16AR DVB-T Hybrid  
> PCI card.
>
> Any help would be greatly appretiated.
>
>

I don't know much about XFS but I'd start by trying to record a file  
larger than 4GB outside of Myth. Obviously if you can't do that for  
some reason that would explain your troubles.


Brian Wood
beww at beww.org





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