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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was asking too much, and honestly I think it
would a tad too much for myself to tweak every part in myth that handle file
locations and calculations of free space. I'm a full time CS student and kind of
busy but that just means all the more I want to tweak it. I do think this should
definitely be a built in feature. The ability to 2 recording directories, giving
one presidency. So if one is out of room or can't be connected too it defaults
locally, then if the connection is restored it could move the remaining data
over. This would be nice to integrate into the GUI settings also. </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>The whole local SQL table is a good idea, but probably isn't
too feasible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm only in the preplanning stages to have a remote
slave mythbackend/frontend for the family room. I'm planning on getting a 54G
PCI card for it, probably use the prism54.org drivers and work from there. One
last thing I also have to figure out is how to have it run scripts to start
mythfrontend & backend as root when it auto logs in. I've searched online
and on the list here but I've never figured this out, since .kde/Autostart does
not load when autologin is enabled heh. Also would like to find that script that
someone built a while back to turn on and off the box by scheduled recordings.
Most likely I will just set it to turn on at 5pm or something by using the BIOS
or just have my master backend send out a WOL packet. Then too turn it off I'll
figure out a script on it locally for midnight. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I might look into this bjm heh, anyway if I get it
working I will submit a patch. </FONT><FONT size=2>> Is there any option to
specify a secondary location for recording? <BR><BR>>That shouldn't be too
hard. Add code to split 'RecordFilePrefix' <BR>>on ":" where it opens the
file. Try to open the basename in the <BR>>first dir. If it fails try the
next. If there are no more dirs <BR>>and no open has succeeded then report
file not found. You should <BR>>then be able to enter a colon separated list
of directories in <BR>>the backend "setup" program's General pages.
<BR>><BR>>You would also need to split the path and use the first element
<BR>>where the recorder opens a file for writing. <BR>><BR>>Send a
patch when you get it working =). <BR>><BR>>-- bjm </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>+ of course more code heh</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>>You'd also need to modify the disk space
threshhold-checking code for <BR>>starting new recordings & auto-expire.
<BR>><BR>>-JAC </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>>Make sure that you make changes to the backend as well so
it knows how <BR>>to determine the free space for multiple directories.
<BR>><BR>>And when the recorder tries a file it should check to see that
the free <BR>>space on that directory/filesystem isn't below the threshold
set. :) </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>