[mythtv-users] Live TV files not cleaned up

[Steve Daniels]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I noticed that after watching Live TV in Myth that there are large
> video files left over from each time I watch. I watched twice this
> morning as a test of a new storage drive and have two mpg files left
> over.
> 
>    What can I do to have Myth delete these after veiwing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> mark at dragonfly ~ $ ls -al /video/
> total 1847960
> drwxrwxrwx  2 root   root        4096 May 14 07:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root        4096 Mar 16 08:40 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv video 1485268992 May 14 07:00 1058_20070514062152.mpg
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv video      36522 May 14 07:00 1058_20070514062152.mpg.png
> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv video  405135360 May 14 07:10 1058_20070514070000.mpg
> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv video          0 May 14 06:16 nfslockfile.lock
> mark at dragonfly ~ $

Hi Mark,

All TV Live or Recorded is save as a file by MythTV. As and when MythTV 
needs more space files are expired. LiveTV is always expired first when 
space is needed, and IIRC the LiveTV files by default last no more than 
a day before they are automatically expired by MythTV.

So basically, you have to do nothing.

This has been discussed ad infinitum on the mailing list btw ;-)

HTH

Steve Daniels