[mythtv-users] Suddenly nearly every recording is short

myShade myshade at bredband.net
Thu Oct 15 06:51:57 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 19:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Starting last night at 9PM and except for a couple of recordings made
> mid-morning today every recording is coming up very short in time.
> 
> Approximate times:
> 
> Letterman - 7 minutes
> Conan - 15 minutes
> Ferguson - 10 minutes
> NCIS: LA - 15 minutes
> the forgotten - 20 minutes
> etc.
> 
> However NCIS at 8PM recorded fine as well as Stewart and Colbert
> recorded this morning just fine. Again, this afternoon a cooking show
> my wife records quit after about 6 minutes.
> 
> I've looked all the log files and see no problems. In fact everything
> looks very normal, like it thought it was recording right amount of
> time. Letterman commercial flagging started at 12:30 which would be
> about right for the program being completely recorded.
> 
> 
> I've not heard of a problem like this before. Has this been reported?
> 
> If not then I'm leaning toward some weird hardware problem on my end
> which is easy to guess but hard to determine. I did have my recording
> drive go out a few weeks ago and I've been using an older 1394 drive
> since then. I don't know how it would cause this problem and not leave
> any messages anywhere but stranger things have happened I suppose.
> 
> Anyway, I'd be very appreciative of inputs toward solving this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark

Hi.
No resolution, but a me too...
I also have short recordings starting 13/10
Perhaps its time to switch trunk->.22-RC

/Fredrik



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