[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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