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

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:

> 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.

Don't be sorry for me. It's always worked correctly for me. Not sure  
what happened on your system. I recommend setting up a separate LiveTV  
recording group so it can't affect your other recording groups.