[mythtv-users] live-tv

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Apr 12 01:20:00 UTC 2009


Elizabeth Steinke wrote:
> What happens if someone forgets to shutdown a frontend and its on live
> tv. Does it just stay connected to the backend buffering data to the
> disks? Wouldn't this be hard on the disks on the backend if this were
> a common occurence. Is their a way to have it go back to the menu
> and/or shut itself down after a specified time?
A single instance of livetv will result in a single linear block of
data, and one at most 2MB/s.  Not hard at all for a hard drive to
handle.  Now MythTV will keep these files for a day or so before
auto-expiring, so if you are low on space, that may be a problem.  There
is a sleep timer available in the onscreen menu.


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