playing pending recordings stops prematurely

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Dear Sub,

installed gbpvr 2 days ago to run it with my pvr350 on the tv and I am stunned about the great work you did!

I have problems though watching a program which is currently being recorded. It seems that the program is played without any problems until the length/duration of the recording is reached up to which it was recorded when the playback started.
Example: Starting to play after 15 minutes have been recorded the payback stops after 15 minutes even though the recording has continued for another 15 minutes.
Seems like the playback for pending thus still growing recording files is delimited by the filesize. Watching the stream e.g. with vlc does really play it until the end of the recording is reached. But that does not output to the tv ;-).

my wish: could you make the playback of recordings with status "recording" limited only by reaching the actual end of the file?

Cheers  -X-

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This is currently a know issue with playing back files as they record. Its on my list of things to change. This one is harder than you'd imagine...

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Quote[/b] (sub @ Oct. 18 2004,00:24)]This one is harder than you'd imagine...

Yep, I am far from knowing anything about the intrinsics of video files but one thing I noticed e.g. with software like WinTVCap is that upon a scheduled recording with predefined lenght (time) they seem to estimate the filesize in advance and start out with a consecutive file of let's say 3Gig. Maybe it allows to provide a file length (even if it's purely virtual and would lead to problems if one skipped actually into the "empty" part of a file) to allow playing normally through it. If the real recording would not fit the estimated filesize ot could be re-allocated smaller or bigger... Just a thought - but I guess you knew that.

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I did look at this scheme early on, but it has some major draw backs. The directshow components seek to the end of the file and read the last few presentation timestamps and use these to determine the stream duration and to assist in the seek process. It actually created a whole set of new issues, and lot of headaches for my XCard and PVR350 support.

Dont worry, I have a scheme in mind and have made reasonable progress on it, so this may be included in the next release if I can finish it.