Hi All,

I was tring to record a live tv show that was around 90 minutes. My recorder
seemed to stop after 30 minutes of the recording. I noticed in google that
there is a buffer that only record live tv for 30 minutes? Is there anyway
around this?

Thanks for your help ahead of time.

How much space do you have for recoded TV? goto settings in MCE and look.
--
Richard A Miller MCE mvp


"Joe" wrote:

Hi Richard, thanks for the quick reply. please let me know if I am looking at
the wrong settings.

Under Storage I have:
Record on drive: c (107 GB)
Disk allocation: 75%
Recording Quality:Best
Max Recording Time 22 hours 53 Minutes

Under Defaults I have:
Keep: until space needed
Quality:Best
Start when possible:On Time
Sop when Possible: On Time
Language: English
Show Type: First run and rerun
Record on: One Channel, anytime
Daily recording limit: No Limit
Keep up to: As many as possible

"Richard Miller" wrote:

The 30-minute buffer only affects when you are just watch "Live TV", that's
"approximately" how far back you could rewind a live show. This buffer is
cleared/restarted every time you change channels.

If you actually hit the Record button to record a show, MCE will record
until the end (or you manually stop it). See Richard's answer if you are
talking about actually "Recording" a show (vs. just being able to pause, FF,
Rew, etc. a show you are watching).
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Joe your setting look good, try to recording a movie 1 1/2 hour see what
happens.

Jaime is right the 30 minute buffer for live TV so you can pause for 30
minute,
the buffer is not your problem.
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Richard A Miller MCE mvp


"Jaime" wrote:

Richard and James,
Thanks for all your help. I had MCE setup wrong and had to reconfiger it. I
had the channel setup to only use channel 4 and I was using my settop
controler to change the channels. I never set up the MCE controler because my
settopbox was to far away. but I made it work and now I can change the
channels with the MCE controller.

The most important thing was the guide was looking at the wrong channel so
the recording was stoping when it thought the show should be over. If I had
not fixed the guide meet up with the channels I would stil have this problem.

Thanks again for your help.
Joe

"Richard Miller" wrote:

Glad to hear you solved it. Thanks for posting a followup.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have an issue with this. It says that my hard drives are formatted for
FAT32, and they need to be formatted with the NTFS Filing system or something
like that when I go into my recording settings in order to record anything
longer than 30 minutes. What do I do?

Convert your hard drive partition to NTFS.

Use the convert command from the command prompt.

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"KBattleson" <KBattleson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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But KBattleson may not have a version of Windows that does NTFS, in
which case the advice becomes "Install Windows XP and then convert".

I'm just being a nag, but it might be appropriate in this instance :-)

Gino

On 5/20/2006, Jason Tsang posted this:
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

One would hope that that person is actually using Windows XP MCE...
otherwise, they shouldn't be posting in here at all.

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"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
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You're an incurable optimist! And doubtless right: the OP's posts are
consistent with MCE.

And I'll provide an excuse (ignoring the knee-jerk nature of my first
post): someone else reading this thread who *doesn't* have MCE or XP
might benefit from my remark :-)

Gino

On 5/20/2006, Jason Tsang posted this:
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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Thanks Jason, I will try that. But first, I want to know if that will change
anything at all on my hard drives. If I should back up or anything? Secondly,
can you please spell out exactly how this should be done. I know a little bit
of what should be done, but I just want to check and make sure. Thanks so
much!
Keith

"Jason Tsang" wrote:

Hi Keith

It is all highlighted here

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...onvertfat.mspx

Look under the "Converting to NTFS Using Convert.exe" section.


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"KBattleson" <KBattleson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thank you very much sir!
Keith

"Jason Tsang" wrote:

You're welcome.

As for backing up your data, I'd recommending some sort of backup, as with
any major disk operation.

That said, I can't recall ever seeing convert fail (when it is not
interrupted by any weird events ... i.e. blackout etc).

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