Is this normal?

jim08127 · 2014-12-30, 11:45 PM

Hi, Just starting to use my NPVR setup and I might ask a dumb question (or two lol). But I notice that Live TV is splitting recordings into multiple files. Also, I expected it to continue recording the next show, but it did not seem to work. I have it set to track by EPG information.

***sub*** · 2014-12-31, 01:54 AM

Not sure I follow you. If you schedule a recording, that recording should end up in a single file (unless you've restarted the recording service during that recording).

Handy.Man · 2014-12-31, 01:56 AM

I've seen this a few times. What can cause this is transmission glitches during the recording, it looks it stop recording to a file then start another one when transmission resumes.

jim08127 · 2014-12-31, 10:15 PM

Handy.Man Wrote:I've seen this a few times. What can cause this is transmission glitches during the recording, it looks it stop recording to a file then start another one when transmission resumes.

Ok. But my system is an analog capture card, so dang, I guess my system has the hiccups. I have ordered a PVR 2250 to replace the old beloved PVR-150. Maybe that will fix it.

jim08127 · 2014-12-31, 10:17 PM

sub Wrote:Not sure I follow you. If you schedule a recording, that recording should end up in a single file (unless you've restarted the recording service during that recording).

Let me re-word that. The Live recording for one show is being split into many 300 kb files. I think this cause probs with deleting them too.

jim08127 · 2014-12-31, 10:28 PM

sub Wrote:Not sure I follow you. If you schedule a recording, that recording should end up in a single file (unless you've restarted the recording service during that recording).

I'll post more info, including logs as soon as I get a chance. I know I should have made a better post.

mvallevand · 2014-12-31, 10:30 PM

jim08127 Wrote:Let me re-word that. The Live recording for one show is being split into many 300 kb files. I think this cause probs with deleting them too.

Yes it is normal to split the live tv rolling file into chunks, but the default is 6.33 minutes. There is a registry setting that controls the size, did you accidentally play around with that? There could be up to four of them made, how many do you see?

Martin

jim08127 · 2014-12-31, 11:30 PM

No, I did not change any settings related to that. Based on this information, I think it is working correctly then. I'll let it alone for awhile and see. Thanks. Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for the support.

mvallevand · (This post was last modified: 2015-01-01, 12:10 AM by mvallevand.)

Ok if you meant 300MB not kb?

Martin

jim08127 · 2015-01-01, 06:50 PM

Hi again. Follow up question on the Live TV. Can the length (size) of the Live buffer be changed? I want to make it bigger if I can.

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