[mythtv-users] stray viewings being left as recordings
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue Apr 17 00:32:41 UTC 2007
On Apr 16, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Paul Webber wrote:
> I notice as I'm channel surfing that each time a new video file is
> created, such as 6009_20070415214005.mpg and it ends up in my
> recordings directory (ie the one specified by RecordFilePrefix in
> mythconverg.settings), and those files aren't deleted when I stop
> watching tv. So after a couple days of use, I have around 30 files
> lingering in my recordings directory, most of them are just 15
> second clips as I was surfing through channels. I wouldn't expect
> Myth to save these since I didn't tell Myth to record them; they're
> just 'stray viewings'. I would only expect that the files would be
> saved if I scheduled the recording, or hit the recording button.
> Any idea why they're left here? Shouldn't they have been saved in
> the directory specified in the 'LiveBufferDir' setting instead of
> my recordings directory?
>
> I see most of them are in the recorded table too, where I assume
> recordings are stored, and I wouldn't expect to see them here since
> they weren't really recordings; FYI the 'record' table is empty,
> because I have never scheduled any recordings. I couldn't find
> anything in Myth's wiki about the cause of this behavior. Is this
> what it's supposed to do? Is there a way to make it only save
> shows that I actually recorded or scheduled and not save a bunch of
> files every time
Please. Not this again !
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
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