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

Mudit Wahal mwahal at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 19:15:48 UTC 2006


Dag,

The best way to get *around* this issue is to have a dedicated
partition for the myth recordings. That way, the old livetv files will
be deleted much faster. You can keep your programs, archives, dvds,
movies, downloads, torrents, etc on a separate partition(s). AFAIK,
you can set the directory paths in the myth setup. Its little pain in
the behind to setup separate partition, but atleast you will not boil
your blood everytime you see gigabytes of livetv buffer sitting around
on your precious disk space.

Also, this is more like a developer's project. The developer(s)
dictate which features are needed and how it should be implemented.
Always keep that in mind, it helps to lower your blood pressure. I've
found many work arounds in mythtv to keep my cool :-)

In the end, if you dont like the way mythtv works, you are most
welcome to try other alternatives, such as Freevo, VDR (very light
weight), etc etc. I've just started looking at the VDR, its very light
weight and does only thing :-)

Thanks

Mudit



On 1/14/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Dag Nygren wrote:
> >> I do feel that an option 'Delete LiveTV Recordings when changing
> >> channel' would be useful for many people.
> >>
> > Yep,
> > I already suggested changing the resolution of  the setting
> > "Keep LiveTVthis long" to hours instead of days, but there
> > were no comments on that.
> >
> > I also tried to ask what the point was keeping the old LiveTV
> > recordings  around just in case  I am missing some nice feature
> > here, but was also there greeted with silence....
> >
> Does this silence include the 6 posts from Isaac alone on this thread
> you started?
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/167388?167388
>
> (It's hard to exaggerate when there's an archive of the list.)  Well,
> since all you heard was silence, I can only assume you were blatantly
> ignoring the posts that answered your questions.  (I must be a slow
> learner, because here I am responding to one of your posts--even though
> it seems you'll ignore my response.)
> > As it doesn't change any logic in Myth the patch is trivial
> > and even I can do it if anyone is interested.
> Yes, I'm interested.  Please write the patch, apply it to your own
> builds of MythTV, and end this discussion.
>
> Isaac has made it clear that such patches will not be applied to the
> main branch, so if you really think you need this functionality, you can
> maintain it yourself.  If it's really so trivial, it won't be a problem
> for you (and, every post you continue to make on this subject is that
> much less time you can spend writing the "trivial" patch for your
> install of Myth).
>
> Mike
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