[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.26 records live TV without being told to do so

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > The best way to find out how much storage is used by Live TV (and Deleted
> > Recordings) is to use the backend status page
>
> Which is what I said, but as I mentioned, it's not the easiest format
> for getting at from monitoring/alert scripts (since you need to do an
> HTTP request and parse it out). I can manage that, but not everyone
> can.
>
>
> > If you want to clean up the Live TV at any time, go to Watch Recordings,
> > select Live TV in the left column (i.e. using MENU|Change Group View to
> > include Live TV or MENU|Change Group Filter to show only Live TV), then
> > MENU|Add this group to playlist, MENU|Playlist options|Delete.  You can
> do
> > the same with Deleted shows to remove them from disk.
>
> It's handy to know you can delete an entire group at once (didn't
> realize that), but that's not really what I was after. I was asking
> about moving actual recordings from the LiveTV group, so that the
> LiveTV storage group only contains LiveTV. Right now, if you are busy
> using a tuner when a recording starts and you choose the "watch while
> it records" option, that "recording" actually goes into the LiveTV
> storage group (unless this changed recently...I haven't checked in the
> last 6 months or so). The same happens if you start watching a show
> live and then decide if you want to keep it as a recording
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
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IIRC, that is a bug. It may have been fixed.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos
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