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

[Raphael Pooser]

Brad DerManouelian 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.
>>     

Tivo gives you something like an hour long livetv buffer.  If, while 
you're watching liveTV on your Tivo, you want to actually record it, you 
can hit the record button, and it will continue on recording the show as 
you watch it.  However, only what is left in the buffer will be 
available as the start of the program.  If you're watching a 2 hour 
program, and 1:30 into you decide to hit the record button, you lose the 
first 30 minutes because they're not longer in the buffer.  This is NOT 
how mythtv does it.  Mythtv will save your entire program and keep 
recording it whether it takes 1GB or 40.  Just in case, after watching 
39GB of it, you still haven't decided whether you want to record it or 
not.  This is all not supposed to be a problem but that would be 
predicated on the fact that nothing is going to take that much space for 
one program.  One guy has found a case where that is a problem for him, 
and he is getting chastised for it and has left the thread.
Sheesh, I don't use LiveTV, that's the end of it.

> 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.
>   

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Raphael