[mythtvnz] Recording Live Earth for 22 hours

Simon Green mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:09:06 +1200


On 04/07/07, Steven Ellis <steven@openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
> Hmmm. This is going to be fun. Both Sky's and freeview's data has it as a
> single program from 8pm friday -> 6pm Saturday.
>
> I'd probably add an extra 2 hours because of potential overrun so 24 hours.
>
> Wonder how well the various PVR products will cope with a single 24hour
> file, plus thats going to be a fun file to edit later.

Mythtv had no problems. Unfortunately, I was recording the analogue
feed. Sky Digital doesn't come until tomorrow.

simon@sambuca:/share/mythtv/recordings$ ls -lart
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 51075300956 2007-07-08 18:00 1006_20070707200000.mpg

Currently watching abouth 13 hours and 30 minutes in (Beastie Boys).
Had to pause it when I went to bed, and went out this morning :)

  -- simon