[mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled recording

Johan Venter johan at vulturest.com
Fri Jan 13 02:19:01 UTC 2006


SpEnT wrote:
> I'm not sure if there's something I may have done but after upgrading
> to svn 8566, everytime I watch TV it recods what I'm watching and
> keeps the file. I ran a watch -n1 where I store my recorded programs
> and everyimte I changed the channel it adds a new mpg file as an
> example heres a file listing:

This is how LiveTV works now. I know it's a standard response, but if 
you're going to run SVN, you need to be following the dev list.

> This was just changing channels and it fills up the directory where I
> store my recordings. Does anyone have any ideas why it would be doing
> this or what I might have to change to fix it? Any help is
> appreciated!!

If you have your LiveTV auto-expire settings correct, you will never run 
out of disk space - it will delete the oldest LiveTV recordings based on 
your preferences to make room for actual scheduled recordings.



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