[mythtv-users] Preview Errors caused by superfluous LiveTV zero length files?

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/18/2008 12:25 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>> And if they haven't been generated ahead of time, enabling their display
>>> would make the Watch Recordings screen completely unusable.  Since
>>> there's no harm in generating them, ...
>>>
>>>     
>> (In reference to preview images.) Mike, I know that this comes up every so 
>> often, and I know what your views on them are, but consider this:
>>
>> Quite a lot of users have our video directories optimised to store honking great 
>> files, since that's what videos generally are. Unfortunately, preview files are 
>> generally only a few Kb, and there is often more than one per video, so, since 
>> our allocation blocks are usually much larger, the preview files do actually 
>> waste a lot of space.
>>
>> Also, not all of us live in the States and and are able to get our disk space 
>> very cheaply.
>>
>> I'm not against preview files, although I personally consider them a waste of 
>> time. Other people may find them useful. However, wouldn't it be helpful in the 
>> case of the allocation problem if they went in their own directory, which could 
>> have smaller allocation sizes?
>>   
> 
> If you look at the top of libs/libmyth/storagegroup.cpp, you'll see:
> 
> const QStringList StorageGroup::kSpecialGroups = QStringList()
>     << "LiveTV"
> //    << "Thumbnails"
>     << "DB Backups"
>     ;
> 
> The "Thumbnails" special storage group will be uncommented as soon as I 
> can get around to finishing up the patch I've been working on that puts 
> the preview pixmaps, a.k.a. Thumbnails, in their own storage group.
> 
Great! I always knew storage groups would be useful for something ;)

Mike Perkins