[mythtv-users] Am I able to stop auto-recording?

[Steve Daniels]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Martin Ereth
> Sent: 26 March 2006 18:47
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Am I able to stop auto-recording?
> 
> 
> I am very interested.
> If developers (if responding people are developers) don't care about
> simple user
> wishes, then they shouldn't worry about decreasing user numbers.
> 
> Martin

Martin,

Developers only develop what they want Myth to do, and share it cause
they're nice, and if they're feeling really nice they add features that that
don't use.

I've followed this thread, as all the other threads, to actually see if any
of "you people" have come up with an actual reason for not having LiveTV
deleted when needed instead of immediately and as yet, I have seen a single
valid reason.

Please provide the reason you want it deleted immediately, because all other
people I've seen post threads like this have only wanted it to be deleted
immediately for two reasons; 1 they had a thought that it's strange and bad
and are now stubbornly stuck in this way of thinking, 2 they don't know how
to, or haven't configured myth properly.

Both are user issues.

A few facts you may not be aware of.

IIRC:

Myth auto-expires short LiveTV straight away, i.e. the kind you get from
channel hopping.
Myth auto-expires LiveTV before any other recordings.
Myth auto-expires LiveTV as the drive is filled up by external sources. I.e.
you also rip DVD's to the drive, so you tell it to leave 9GB free. The disk
is otherwise completely full apart from the 9GB free space you told Myth to
leave. You then rip a 6GB DVD. You now have 3GB free space left, Myth
realises this, and since you've told it to always leave 9GB free it will
auto-expire 6GB of recordings ( starting with LiveTV ) so you are back at
the 9GB free situation. All the time doing exactly as you have told it.

Steve