[mythtv] [exp. patch] 'Auto' Auto Delete V4

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 20 May 2005 03:49 pm, Mark Setzer wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 3:34 pm, Isaac Richards said:
> > On Friday 20 May 2005 03:23 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> >> I've updated this patch a bit.
> >
> > Looks good to me.  Only semi-related, but it'd be nice to update the free
> > space available displays to show it in terms of time, instead of size,
> > too.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how would one go about that? I'd assume take the
> bitrate from "Default" and do something like disk space (k) / (bps)*8*1024
> and get HMS, but I've probably got more recordings using a higher-quality
> profile than the default, so that wouldn't be terribly accurate. I suppose
> one could easily give figures for each profile's bitrate, but I could also
> see an advantage to having one time figure (for, say, delete recordings
> and view recordings.

Well, the file size and duration of each recording is available.  Total size 
of the storage is available.  You can estimate the total time left based on 
what's currently recorded with that.

Isaac