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

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sat Jan 14 20:32:50 UTC 2006


Dag Nygren wrote:
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the tip,
> but this just doesn't work.
> The main disk space is needed by two things: MythTV and ie. a downloaded
> stream from my Digital video camera.
> The problem is that MythTV should be given as much as possible 
> when it is not needed by the digicam, but when I need the space
> I need it. 
> Putting these on different partitions will not share the space available.
>   
Myth will expire programs as you fill the disk regardless of the 
source.  Set your autoexpire check time low and I don't believe you 
could fill the disk fast enough to beat the expiration.  All you're 
really arguing about is your desire to expire things yourself which is 
just silly.  Myth will do it for you.  Let it.

Kevin


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