[mythtv-users] Backend recording liveTV I don't watch

[Mike Perkins]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> 
>> I like the theory, Mike, but that's not what happened in my case. That's
>> why I ended up with 13 hours of overnight tv, rather than just the most 
>> recent program (or two) on disk before I discovered what was happening. I
>> think I had some 9-10 separate programs stored.
> 
> What he's saying is that if your system has the room, it will keep them. If
> it doesn't have the room, it will expire the oldest LiveTV recordings before
> anything else. If it's trying to record LiveTV and has expired all the old
> LiveTV recordings it could, *then* it would start expiring regular programs
> (that are set to auto-expire) to make room for the LiveTV it's trying to
> record.
> 
Sorry, it didn't do that. I lost a couple of the oldest programs (films) even
though there was plenty (> 200Gb at the time) space on the disk. I did wonder at
the time what kind of strange algorithm determined that, but I was more
concerned with stopping the feed at the time.

Yes, I am well aware what was supposed to happen, that time it didn't. I don't 
plan for it to happen again.

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Mike Perkins