[mythtv-users] Storage directory for MythDVD transcode?

[Tom Greer]

On 7/5/07, Brad Patterson <bpatterson at espec.com> wrote:
>
>  Anduin Withers wrote:
>
>  I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings-
>
>
>  Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I
>
>  put in there it doesn't seem to matter.
>
>  The temp directory is exactly that, the final file is written to your video
> directory.
>
>
>  I understand what the temp directory is for, I was just wondering if there
> is some way that I could specify where it is or remap the temp directory to
> a different partition (i.e one with more room).  Perhaps this info can be
> modified in some deep down configuration file?
>

Setting the temp directory works fine for me.  How do you know that
the specified temp directory is not being used?

BTW, you mentioned earlier that you were trying to save the files to a
USB drive.  I purchased a USB drive a short time ago.  I was having
intermittent problems writing to it.  The only message that I received
was an IO error.

This was driving me nuts until I realized that the drive was
preformatted as FAT32 and that FAT32 has a 4 mb file size limitation.
Since I wanted to use a Windows laptop to view the files, I had to
reformat it as NTFS.

Perhaps you have a similar problem?