[mythtvnz] Incomplete recordings

[worik]

On 28/11/14 23:13, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:41:06 +1300, you wrote:
> 
>> My recordings are cutting short.  They are usually stopping after about
>> forty minutes.
>>

[snip]

>>
>> There was a write that took 15 seconds.  But there is nothing that says
>> it failed
>>

[snip]

> Fifteen seconds is way too long for a write - it very likely that the
> write failed even though the message is not explicit about that.  And
> what I have seen in the past on my box is that a failed write seems to
> stop the recording at that point.
> 
> How many recordings are you doing at a time?  There is a limit to how
> much traffic you can get on an Ethernet connection to a NAS.  Is it
> gigabit Ethernet or only 100 Mbit?  And there seem to be lots of
> commercial NAS boxes that perform appallingly badly with very low
> write speeds compared to building one yourself with an old
> motherboard.  So if you are expecting your NAS drives to work at the
> full speed of the Ethernet connection, you may be sadly mistaken.

That makes a lot of sense.

I need to make sure I only record standard definition if there is a
choice  The commonest time it happens is when recording TV1 and TV3 news
at 6pm.  Both HD.

Damn!  I'm going the old motherboard root for my server!  (Old case too)

thanks
Worik

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