Tvheadend

I have been setting up test recording over the last couple of days using the Kodi Record option and Timer option and also on the TVH web interface EPG tab.

I can not make TVH record any program longer than 2 hours, even though it acts as if the program complete it's full time. The file size is the only indication that it recorded only 2 hours. When you play it, the playback just stops at the 2 hour point and you can't advance past it.

I'm trying to determine if this is a TVH issue or is it specific to the LibreELEC on Raspberry only.

I would have to assume that someone somewhere has recorded a program using TVH longer than 2 hours and had it work.

Can someone confirm that much for me?

Is the playback 2 hours without errors? You may have lots of errors accounting for the missing time. Or there was something that ended the program early (tuner channel change, sleep state).

There are no errors listed and I have 100% signal strength on all my channels that the HDHR tuner is configured for. Since RPI 4 has no sleep state, I don't think that would be it.

I am using the HDHR tuners as IPTV Automatic network with all the HDHR channels configured via a .m3u file. I don't know why that would cause a problem.

I'm doing a test today with another RPI4 where I'm using the built-in HDHR DVB inputs and the ATSC Network to see if that could be an issue.

I'm also installing TVHeadend on a Ubuntu Linux PC using HDHR tuners to see if it's a Raspberry Pi issue with LibreELEC only.

I think I know the problem and will test to confirm.

When you use IPTV Network Automatic you need a .m3u file. Mine had entries like:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="UNC-TV" tvh-chnum="4.1",UNC-TV
http://192.168.0.21:5004/auto/v4.1?duration=7200
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="ROOTLE" tvh-chnum="4.2",ROOTLE
http://192.168.0.21:5004/auto/v4.2?duration=7200
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="UNC-EX" tvh-chnum="4.3",UNC-EX
http://192.168.0.21:5004/auto/v4.3?duration=7200
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="NCCHL" tvh-chnum="4.4",NCCHL
http://192.168.0.21:5004/auto/v4.4?duration=7200

Note the duration=7200 which is 2 hours. I'm going to make the edits as in:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="UNC-TV" tvh-chnum="4.1",UNC-TV
http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.1
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="ROOTLE" tvh-chnum="4.2",ROOTLE
http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.2
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="UNC-EX" tvh-chnum="4.3",UNC-EX
http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.3
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="NCCHL" tvh-chnum="4.4",NCCHL
http://192.168.0.27:5004/auto/v4.4

and see what happens.

Yes, the ?duration=7200 was the problem. I need to be careful who I steal my setup files from. I'm not sure why I the 7200 was every there. I've recorded multiple 4 hour football games today without a problem.