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

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 29 September 2003 03:07 pm, and wrote:
> ext3
> 
> 
> On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:03 AM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 
> >> -----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


ext3, huh?  Weird.  Maybe you should try running mythbackend with some more 
verbose logging enabled.

-JAC