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Title: TV Recording Limit
Post by: bennyd on June 16, 2003, 12:21:45 pm

If I record a TV program (from the right mouse menu "Start TV Recording"), the recording stops after exactly 1 hour.

Is this a bug or a feature that can be adjusted ?

(I'm recording in DIVX 5.05 standard)

Media Center Registered 9.1.199 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2603 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 235 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.57 (1008) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1997 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.57 (1008)

Ripping /   Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive G:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: Yes  Soundfile:   chord.wav

Burning /  Drive G: PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-105    Addr: 3:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
 Use playback settings: Yes /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: TV Recording Limit
Post by: Yaobing on June 16, 2003, 06:37:15 pm

Quite some time ago this was configurable. Your one hour time limit may be the result of your setting it then. This interface was removed in consideration of simplifying the configuration process (it's a flexibility versus simplicity thing). In most recent builds of MC, the time limit is set at 3 hours. So if you do a Reset, you should be able to get rid of the one hour limit (and change it to three hours).

The three hour limit is used so the program will not use up all your disk space in case you forget to stop recording. If you do not even like the three hour limit, you will have to hack the registry to change it. Look for values "Use TimeLimit" (boolean) and "TimeLimit" (number of seconds) under "TV Settings" key.

Title: Re: TV Recording Limit
Post by: bennyd on June 16, 2003, 11:56:30 pm

Thanks,

The registry hack did the trick :-)