[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/06/2006 09:56 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> What the OP doesn't like is the *idea* of a 
> recording sitting on his hard drive.  The space it takes up will be 
> freed and the auto-expire settings will take care of that.  The biggest 
> problem I've seen with LiveTV is people's perceptions of how it should 
> work and their, pardon my words, analness about having to account for 
> every byte on their system and see the exact amount of free space at all 
> times.

For those with misguided ideas of how LiveTV should work, after watching 
LiveTV, go to the Watch Recordings page (or probably the Delete 
Recordings page, but I've never actually used this page, so I couldn't 
say for sure) and hit MENU.  Then, change the recording group to 
LiveTV.  Then, with the LiveTV recording group selected in the left-hand 
column, hit MENU and select Add this Group to Playlist.  Then, hit MENU, 
select Playlist, Playlist Options, Delete.  (Words might be slightly 
different, but this should give you an idea.)

Oh, and if you keep track of how much time you spend doing this, then 
once you finally get so upset at how much time it's taking and give up 
(and start letting Myth's autoexpire do its job), you can look back at 
your journal to see just how much time you actually wasted because of 
your unwillingness to consider an idea that differed from your 
preconceived notion of how things should work. ;)

Mike