[mythtv-users] help - some recordings seem to be much too short.

[ryan patterson]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 0.22. All the programs that i recorded before
> the upgrade all playback correctly. But some of the ones recorded
> since do not. The recording is good - mplayer plays it correctly and
> shows the correct length - but mythfrontend thinks it is much shorter
> than it really is. That said if i skip forward using mythfrontend i
> can skip past the point where it would play to and it will play for a
> few minutes more before stopping again.
>
> does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Chris

Do you have the "prompt at end of recording" option enabled?  If so
disable it.  There is a known issue with that option causing playback
to stop early.

How do you record these shows?  What format are they in?  The known
issue I'm talking about is a whole lot worse on HD-PVR H.264
recordings (it actually causes all recordings to end a little early
though).

-Ryan