[mythtv-users] MythTranscode cuts off recordings at 23 minutes

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Aug 23 18:14:09 UTC 2008


On 08/23/2008 02:10 PM, nik gibson wrote:
> Mythtranscode used to work perfectly for me and now for some reason it 
> cuts my recordings in half.  I have a perfectly good cutlist in place 
> for a show that's 1 hour long and with the commercials cut out the 
> show would be roughly 45 minutes.  Instead mythtrascode cuts out the 
> commercials and chops the video at 23 minutes.  No matter what the 
> cutlist is set to the video gets truncated at around 23 minutes.  No 
> errors or anything occur in the log.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why this would occur?  It's tremendously 
> frustrating and has ruined lots of my recordings.  It had been working 
> fine for months.  I'm using myhtv 0.21.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.

Transcoding to a FAT32 filesystem (local or possibly on a windows box) 
or any filesystem on a Samba or Windows share?  Could be a file size 
limit.  Is the transcoded file some "magic" size (2GB or 4GB)?

Mike


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