diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 8198bfb5..8dfda45e 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2006,3 +2006,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added some missing cAudio handling calls (thanks to Werner Fink).
 - Replaced the 'for' loops in StripAudioPackets() with memset() calls (thanks to
   Werner Fink).
+- Further increased the timeout until an index file is considerd no longer to be
+  written.
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index e14bb437..e6fe2a1d 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 1.72 2003/01/06 15:36:12 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.73 2003/03/30 13:07:03 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ void cRecordingUserCommand::InvokeCommand(const char *State, const char *Recordi
 #define MAXINDEXCATCHUP   2 // seconds
 
 // The minimum age of an index file for considering it no longer to be written:
-#define MININDEXAGE      60 // seconds
+#define MININDEXAGE     300 // seconds
 
 cIndexFile::cIndexFile(const char *FileName, bool Record)
 :resumeFile(FileName)