expert Question about recording!

[kanye]

hi!
whenever i record something big the db splits the saved *.ts file into up to 5 parts so far.. i want the db to record a movie to one single file not several *.ts files. how can i set the db up NOT to split files while recording?
thx

[idkpmiller]

Originally Posted by kanye

hi!
whenever i record something big the db splits the saved *.ts file into up to 5 parts so far.. i want the db to record a movie to one single file not several *.ts files. how can i set the db up NOT to split files while recording?
thx

Could you define big, and what is the maximum size files it is allowing you?

I seem to recall that there was a maximum file size imposed, cant remember if it was the file system or the .TS standard that imposes it. 1 or 2 GB comes to mind as the limit

[kanye]

1gb, so theres a damn limit ?

[idkpmiller]

Originally Posted by kanye

1gb, so theres a damn limit ?

A quick search on google informs me that DVDs have an artificail limit of 1GB files this is mainly because many 32 bit systems have a limit of 2GB files (actually 2GB minus one byte to fit into a 32bit word).

Coming to think of it I think I have only ever seen 1GB files on a DVD, although if there are exceptions I am sure someone will correct me

I know we are dealing with .TS and not .PS but I think its the standard way of writing the files on media as opposed to sending it as a transport stream.

[twojags]

DreamTSMan merges them together, if you choose, when it downloads to PC, if that's of any help

[tinybox]

Originally Posted by twojags

DreamTSMan merges them together, if you choose, when it downloads to PC, if that's of any help

I was wondering whether there is an update to this topic? I am recording my streams to an NFS server and I'd like to get single .ts files per movie no matter how large the resulting file will be.

I know that DreamTSman can recombine into large files but I do not even want to run Dreamtsman but rather use another Windows Client to access the recorded files from the Linux server via Samba and transcode them directly without going through a dreamtsman download.

Is there anyway to configure Enigma to avoid the splitting?