Tvheadend

Looking at the EPG for 5Star, their evening film is interrupted by "Entertainment news on 5" one hour into the programme. Similarly ITV2 has an insert "FYI Daily". Is this what you are seeing?

I believe the current Tvheadend is able to recognise this situation and record both halves of the programme, but 4.2.x is now really old and may not. If possible I suggest updating to latest master.

A possible workaround is to manually record both halves of the film.

Thanks

That's the sort of behaviour I'm seeing. At the moment I'm running the version of TVH bunled with LibreELEC. I'll see if I can update it. Failing that I'll just wait until I build a replacement system with all the relevant packages

What’s your recording like when you play your recording using VLC. Are you experiencing the same behaviour. The LibreELEC TVH server add on has both 4.2 stable and 4.3 alpha. Try the 4.3 alpha if you haven’t already done so. It’s still a bit behind the TVH master but might include the fix you require to solve the problem

If you use TVH's web site to set the recording (i.e. port 9981, Electronic Program Guide tab) then you can see whether it is going to record both halves or just the first part. And you can make sure it doesn't record the "Entertainment news on 5" program. Even if you set up the recording some other way, you can use the TVH website to check exactly what it is going to record.

I've just scheduled a recording for "Enemy of the State" on 5STAR at 22.00 tonight. The UI shows the start time 22.00 and the run time 2hrs 46min (both correct), but the stop time is given as 23.05, suggesting it will only record the first segment. We'll see what actually happens later.

Dave Pickles wrote:

I've just scheduled a recording for "Enemy of the State" on 5STAR at 22.00 tonight. The UI shows the start time 22.00 and the run time 2hrs 46min (both correct), but the stop time is given as 23.05, suggesting it will only record the first segment. We'll see what actually happens later.

Why 2 hrs 46 min? The first part is 1 hr 5 min and the second is 1 hr 30 min. There's a 5 min intermission in between. Where does the extra 6 min come from? FWIW my TVH records the two parts separately - a very old 4.2.6

Why 2 hrs 46 min? The first part is 1 hr 5 min and the second is 1 hr 30 min.

I have 1 minute pre-recording and 5 minutes post-recording padding set.

My test recording has worked as expected, with the whole film plus the insert recorded to a single file. The only oddity is the stop time on the timer but it doesn't seem to have had any effect.

Paul, do you have "accurate recording" set (Configuration -> Recording -> Use running state)? That might not work properly with segmented recordings.