Robert Cameron wrote:
> No, Tvheadend creates successive files in case of errors/restarts. Then, only the file that completed is referenced.
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> You can probably concatenate all the files into one and it'll play back as a continuous file. However, the way that Tvheadend monitors the filesystem means that modifying recorded files while it is running can be problematic. You can stop Tvheadend, cat the files into a new one, and then rename that new file to match the name of the completed recording. Then, when Tvheadend is restarted it will see the completed file and serve that as the recording, which is now your new concatenated file.
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> I don't know of a way to do this while Tvheadend is running (for example, to make a post-processing script to join broken files), so taking it offline is the only solution I see right now. I've recently been having this problem more frequently than in the past, so I'm looking for a better solution, too.
I think I would be looking for a simpler solution in that tvheadend should simply show me all the playable parts in the web ui and be able to report them all to front ends like kodi. I'm fine with watching both parts if I have a broken recording but as it is now my wife (who is not going to go to file explorer to play the missing part in vlc) simply wouldn't be able to play the first part.