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

[Chris Rouch]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:15 PM, ryan patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


Yes I do. I'll try with it switched off tonight.

>
> 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).

i record all channels with a pair of pvr500s - i don't think it's
possible to tell after the event which recording was made by which
tuner.

Thanks.

Chris