[mythtv-users] Recording the olympics

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 02:11:33 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> So the Olympics are starting up.  I want to record them but ... the
> blocks in Schedules Direct are up to 8 hours.  I don't know how my
> system would handle a 30 or 40 GB file, but my guess is that bad things
> might happen.
>
> Is there some way to tell myth to record this but in 1 hour chunks?
>
For tennis finals that can go to 6 hours I usually use the manual
record and divide it up in 2 hour segments. This works pretty well
since I burn them to DVD+RW to watch them on a standalone player
(still have not got a front end in the living room).


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