[mythtv-users] Prevent Recordings of "Live TV" from Splitting, Etc

[ryan patterson]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:42 PM, tosds9 at gmail.com <tosds9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Watch TV is automatically splitting these recordings on the 00 and 30 of
> every hour (like it thinks that I'm recording multiple 30 minute blocks of
> live TV). If I can prevent the previously-recorded content from splitting
> into multiple files during transfer, MythTV will work perfectly for my
> needs! As stated in an earlier post, the OS and hard drive on my computer
> are both capable of handling individual files of enormous size. Furthermore,
> I don't intend to copy the transferred content to DVD. Indeed, I'm trying to
> avoid having to buy a DVD recorder for my home theater!
>
> Besides MythTV, what other software for Linux is capable of doing what I
> want?

MythTV is still not the proper tool for what you are doing.  But I
guess you are determined to make it work.  Why don't you just join the
30 minute files together?  http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC29

-Ryan