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

Danesh danesh.i at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 21:07:25 UTC 2006


Just curious. What happens if there is no guide data? Recently I have
been getting a few channels with 'No Data'. Is there a default segment
size?

Regards,
~Danesh

On 3/6/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Noah Markon wrote:
>
> >> Sounds like the fix would be to add an option to split live tv after
> >> x (offered in 30 or 60 minute increments) minutes. It would act the
> >> same as exiting LiveTV and re-entering LiveTV to alleviate the
> >> unusually long program issue.
> >
> > Isn't this the way that TiVo does it? If you're just watching liveTV
> > it will only record for an hour, I seem to remember leaving it paused
> > only for it to become un-paused after an hour.
>
> What's Tivo? ;)
>
> Splitting up larger programs into smaller segments wouldn't really
> make it act like a Tivo (since that is way too limiting). It would
> just avoid the problem of VERY long programs filling up your hard
> drive by allowing it to expire earlier portions of a program in
> progress.
>
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