Episode Length is truncated for recordings

[ChrisHammond56]

I have notice on some recordings that the episode is cut short by an random number of minutes (sometimes 10 mins other times 30-40 minutes on a 2HR show). I am not sure if this is restricted to scheduled or manual recordings.

Here is a snippet of the log

2022-06-15 13:30:00.155 [DEBUG][9] About to start recording (4032 on 22): /recordings/tv/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/Season 07/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.S07E03.The Golden Pince-Nez.ts...
2022-06-15 13:30:00.202 [DEBUG][9] Started recording (4032:72:/recordings/tv/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/Season 07/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.S07E03.The Golden Pince-Nez.ts)
2022-06-15 14:42:00.011 [DEBUG][9] Stopping recording (4032 on 22). Past end time of recording. 72
2022-06-15 14:42:00.847 [DEBUG][9] StopStream handle: 72
2022-06-15 14:42:00.856 [DEBUG][9] Closing TSWriter....: /recordings/tv/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/Season 07/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.S07E03.The Golden Pince-Nez.ts
2022-06-15 14:42:00.857 [ERROR][9] writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion


As you can see, the recording started at 13:30 and ended at 14:42 (70 mins show + 2 mins overrun)

However, for a 60mins+ show, I usually get a file size of 4GB+, in this case it was 1.4GB (and other failed shows have a varying length)

I have incorporated a rudimentary file size checker in my PostProcessing.sh and this was the log...

[15/06/2022 14:42] PID[12089] : File Size Actual: 1470798422, Expected: 6750000000
[15/06/2022 14:42] PID[12089] : **Warning: File Size Mismatch (1470798422:6750000000). Conversion Aborted!

Any ideas on why the recording thinks is finished on time, but the file size is too small (in this case it was 14mins into the show when stopped), and I see no events in the NPVR log to indicate an error was detected.

I have attached the logs

Thanks again for your continued support

[mvallevand]

Using extras as tuners there is very little that NextPVR can get wrong. I suspect you have issues with your script when two instances run in parallel.

Martin