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

and hons at rcn.com
Mon Sep 15 08:39:03 EDT 2003


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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