[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this with recordings?

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:41:48PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > It all comes down to the same design choice we discussed a week or
> > two ago when talking about how live TV buffers can wipe out half
> > your hard drive if you leave it tuned to a channel that has no
> > program data.
> Geez.  Now you're just flat out lying about things.  Please stop.

Some of us didn't go out and buy 5 tuners and a terabyte of storage 
to build our dream PVR systems.  Mine only has one tuner and holds 
about 70 hours of recordings (two parameters that are unlikely to 
change any time soon), and live TV can cause 24 hours of that to 
expire under the right circumstances (which very nearly bit me when 
my cable lineup changed and Zap2It had no data for my favorite 
channel for about a week).  OK, so it would only wipe out one third 
of my drive instead of half - big lie.

Don't get me wrong - I really and truly appreciate the work you've 
done.  I just don't see MythTV as ever being "Aunt Tillie Approved" 
because you're approaching the project from a programmer's (and 
hardware collector's) perspective instead of from the common user's 
perspective and are trying to solve complex problems with simple 
solutions that work for most of the people most of the time but 
generate fringe cases and frustration elsewhere and only make later 
changes even more difficult.

Don't worry.  You don't have to change a thing.