[mythtv-users] Orphan files from LiveTV

[Brad DerManouelian]

On May 6, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Mitko Haralanov wrote:

> I was looking over the content of my recordings directory and I  
> noticed
> that there are a lot of mpg files there that don't correspond to any
> recordings (I have 5 mpg files and only one recording).
>
> I was trying to figure out where they came from and the it dawned  
> on me
> that they are left over from watching LiveTV. I remembered that now
> Myth continues to records the shows on live tv, instead of just  
> using a
> buffer.
>
> Well, I don't really want to keep those files around, unless I  
> actually
> hit the "Record" button so is there any option to tell myth to delete
> the files when exiting LiveTV or that a bug in the software?
>
> Thanks.

They will be deleted after the number of days you've specified or  
when more space is needed for recordings. You can manually delete  
them from the frontend by changing your Watch Recordings filter to  
show Live TV and delete them there if you like.