[mythtv] LiveTV recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/04/2007 03:43 AM, Ahmed Toulan wrote:
> I have a question about livetv recording. From what I have read when a
> user press the record "r" button the recording is toggled and a
> scheduled recording is started with end time to the nearest half hour,
> and of course the start of recording is recorded in the database. Of
> course this behavior causes the recording to be in chunks.
>
> I got that information from here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LiveTV
>
> What I really want to know, is there a way to configure mythtv
> (without alterng the code) to do this recording in a single file?
>
> If not I think that I will have to join all the recording files when
> the recording is off, or is there a better way?

Really, this is a question for mythtv-users.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156994#156994

and

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/153279#153279 (pay
particular attention to the 2nd paragraph)

and

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/162071#162071

(so, now, it's broken on the half-hour instead of the 60-minute mark)

and

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/174316#174316

Mike