2013-11-10, 03:20 AM
I've been using NPVR for quite a while and had very little trouble. Recently the computer I was using crashed and I was forced to upgrade to a Windows 7 computer. At the same time I also installed an HD-Homerun as my tuner. In my location I have about 15 QAM channels but that is all I need for what I want to record.
The install went well and I got everything set up and running fine pretty easy and everything appeared quite fine. All the shows I have scheduled have worked great and there have been no issues at all. But these were all one hour shows.
Recently I wanted to record some soccer matches and without exception the soccer matches recorded all the way through but when I went to view them they were only about 30-45 minutes long and the file size was shortened. That is I checked the file size about 3/4 of the way through the recording from another computer and saw it was well over 6gb and growing steadily as NPVR continued to write to it.
After the recording completed I went to watch it and it started exactly right and played beautifully for about 40 minutes anf then stopped as if it reached the end of the file. I checked the file on the disk and found it was only about 560mb. That is it was a LOT smaller than it was when I checked during the recording process.
This never happens on shorter recordings and to test I set up a series (3) of manual recordings to cover a soccer match in 40 minute intervals and the match recorded fine in that manner.
My questions are:
1. Is there a file size limit somewhere I have not located in NPVR?
2. Is this something in Windows 7 that I don't know about? BTW: I have many video files that are as large or larger that the ones that seem to give me problems.
3. If it is a file size problem is there a way to limit it without costing too much in quality? (These are .ts files)
4. Is there a way to tell NPVR to break up a recording into segments without using the, pretty clumsy, manual recording process?
Thanks for any advice.
The install went well and I got everything set up and running fine pretty easy and everything appeared quite fine. All the shows I have scheduled have worked great and there have been no issues at all. But these were all one hour shows.
Recently I wanted to record some soccer matches and without exception the soccer matches recorded all the way through but when I went to view them they were only about 30-45 minutes long and the file size was shortened. That is I checked the file size about 3/4 of the way through the recording from another computer and saw it was well over 6gb and growing steadily as NPVR continued to write to it.
After the recording completed I went to watch it and it started exactly right and played beautifully for about 40 minutes anf then stopped as if it reached the end of the file. I checked the file on the disk and found it was only about 560mb. That is it was a LOT smaller than it was when I checked during the recording process.
This never happens on shorter recordings and to test I set up a series (3) of manual recordings to cover a soccer match in 40 minute intervals and the match recorded fine in that manner.
My questions are:
1. Is there a file size limit somewhere I have not located in NPVR?
2. Is this something in Windows 7 that I don't know about? BTW: I have many video files that are as large or larger that the ones that seem to give me problems.
3. If it is a file size problem is there a way to limit it without costing too much in quality? (These are .ts files)
4. Is there a way to tell NPVR to break up a recording into segments without using the, pretty clumsy, manual recording process?
Thanks for any advice.