<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mercury Morris wrote:<br>> Going back over the logs one more time, I found an event that<br>> occurred three seconds before the out-of-sync discontinuity in<br>> the Charlie Rose program. That event is the AutoExpire of the
<br>> oldest Letterman show. The size? Sixteen gigabytes - 16GB !<br><br>That would do it... :) Sounds like time for another drive (and,<br>possibly, another filesystem)...<br><br></blockquote></div> Another drive, another filesystem... perhaps there is a better solution.
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Just as mythfilldatabase can be scheduled, I would prefer to see a<br>
similar option for AutoExpire. Two ideas come to mind, but I'm sure<br>
there are many others. One choice could be to add an option to<br>
mythtv-setup allowing a window for looking through the recordings<br>
and cleaning out the "too-many-episodes" candidates. <br>
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Another choice could be that when the system determines it is<br>
idle (and about to shutdown), look through the recordings and clean<br>
out the old recordings. (To me, this is like having the office cleaning<br>
crew come in and prepare the work area for the next workday.)<br>
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Depending on the specific filesystem to instantaneously erase what<br>
the recording process took half, one, two hours or more to create,<br>
seems to be misplacing the responsibility for cleanup.<br>
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As for the specific test of avoiding the discontinuity caused by AutoExpire,<br>
the test was successful. That is, before recording Letterman and Charlie<br>
Rose last night, I manually deleted just one Letterman show. And scanning<br>
the Charlie Rose recording all the way to the end showed no glitches at all.<br>
It's only a single test, but that's enough for me to believe that AutoExpire<br>
of a huge recording during the recording made by the PVR-350 causes<br>
an out-of sync problem. (I'm referring only to my system here.)<br>
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Although I didn't mention it before, there is a similar discontinuity in<br>
the recording of Letterman at exactly the same time as in Charlie Rose.<br>
But, the audio and video remain in sync. A few seconds of Letterman<br>
at the point of the IOBOUND are just lost.<br>
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For now, I'll either manually delete old recordings, or change the schedule<br>
to minimize the problem (if that's possible). Eventually, I'd like to make<br>
a formal feature request, probably asking for an option similar to the<br>
mythfilldatabase scheduling option.<br>
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MM<br>
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