[mythtv] How does mythtv decide which backend does the recording?

[Chris Pinkham]

Currently Myth just picks the first available input.  It doesn't take into
account disk space at all except for the stopgap measure I put into
cvs the other day to stop recording if the master backend filled up.

Last night I was looking at the code and think I found a relatively easy
way to accomplish just what you're asking about.  I coded up a sample and
tossed it Isaac's way and after talking about it we think it will work so
I'm going to get something coded up and tested tonight hopefully.

I'll post another reply if I can get it working properly.  When Myth is
scheduling what shows should be recorded on what backends I think I can get
it to skip backends that are low on disk space by acting as if they are
unavailable (since they really can't record anything anyway if they're full).

Long answer short: not today but hopefully tomorrow. :)

> I have two backends, one of them is out of space.  I had assumed that
> mythtv would select the second backend for recording, however I found a
> number of nuv files with zero size in the backend that was out of hard
> disk space.  Does mythtv take into consideration the amount of hd space
> when deciding which backend should do the recording.  If not this would
> be a useful addition.  Thanks.

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Chris