Some recordings of TVE channels are listed as being over 12 hours long

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

Does anyone else have any trouble with some recordings of TVE channels being corrupt and showing that they are over 12 hours long (sometimes over 24 hours) when they are actually an hour or two? I have a few Pluto channels that almost always show that (but not every time). They will play back a little bit usually but most of the time, you miss something or it just stops. I thought maybe it was certain channels but sometimes they work. Is there anything I can check for on my end?

#2

Have you tried "Fix video timestamps"?

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Warning: It has been known to corrupt video files but that hasn't happened to me.

#3

Thanks for the suggestion. It went from 23 hours to 6 seconds. :slight_smile: Oh well. Maybe next time I will try the reprocess video and see what that does.

#4

I record Pluto via Fastchannels. I've had a couple of recordings run for 23.5 hours! I've also seen segments repeat after a commercial. There service is not top quality.

#5

Yeah, it's a bummer. :frowning:

#6

I usually see this when the recording info says : Recording was Interrupted

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#7

The things I reporte above were for recordings that completed normaly.

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#8

This is why I don't view my recordings inside Channels and use Jellyfin instead. Not only wrong duration but sometimes even wrong info or metadata to a point you have unscrew it yourself (usually using tdarr or fileflows) but you'll be glad you did

#9

I usually check them in Kodi. The file size looks right and it seems to record for the correct amount of time but they show much longer. I have tried to fix them with VideoRedo and in the Channels DVR software but neither have worked.

#10

I'm seeing the same thing on random recordings, sometimes from regular TVE channels like, AMC, and other times from PlutoTV channels. Fix video timestamps always makes it worse, what should of been a 2 hour movie state it's 18 hours long, and it will usually be about 1 hour and 20 mins after fix video timestamps is performed. Weird thing is I've monitored movies while recording and up until the recording completes, it will state the proper length - but once the recording stops it will jump up to over 18 hours. I'm using the synology NAS version of the server.