[mythtvnz] Recording Live Earth for 22 hours

Steven Ellis mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:22:02 +1200


Simon Green wrote:
> 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 :)
got it all in widescreen c/o C4 on freeview - 66Gb

-rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 70117805588 Jul  8 18:07 4921_20070707194700.mpg


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