Split Recording into multiple files

[edumetz16]

Hi all.
I'm new to SageTV and have been looking around for an answer to this question but i haven't found it. I need SageTV to generate a file every 5 or 10 minutes without stoping the recording process. This is because i need to access the recorded channels in different points from different machines without having to move large files.
Thanks to everyone

[pjpjpjpj]

1) Are you "new" as in, you just downloaded the trial? Are you aware that SageTV was bought by Google last year? See the "SageTV Software" forum.

2) I don't think this can be done, regardless.

[alfi33]

Could you just use an edl file (like Comskip)?

[Tiki]

Do you need to be able to access the small files immediately, or could you wait until after the full recording has completed? Are you wanting to access the mini-recordings through a Sage product, or some other way?

If you can wait and you don't need to access the files through Sage, perhaps you could set-up a script to split the file into pieces after Sage finishes recording. There are programs out there that can split an MPEG file without re-encoding it, so it can be done very quickly.