<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> Your live TV recordings should be expiring as you run low on disk <br>> space to free more up. If that's not happening you have some other <br>> issue.<br><br>they will expire if a new file is created. that means 5 (I hope that's the wake up time for auto-expire thread) minutes before my disk becomes full, I have to change channel and come back. If I don't do that, it cannot expire the file its writing to. Because it hangs when disk becomes full, it confirms that it can not auto-expire the file its writing.<br><br>-devsk<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Brad DerManouelian <myth@dermanouelian.com><br>To:
Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:05:17 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] An option for watching tv<br><br><div>On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:59 PM, devsk wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I know its something which has been answered in the FAQ (why livetv <br>> records on disk). But I wanted to know if a new mode can be <br>> provided for watching live tv without recording.<br>><br>> Here is my problem. I have 4GB left on the disk. Once I start <br>> watching TV, mythtv just hangs after an hour because the disk <br>> becomes full. I have to delete the file and restart it to watch TV <br>> again. It not only hangs but also thrashes my disk for no reason. I <br>> have no use for pausing tv, or rewinding it. I just want to watch <br>> tv uninterrupted in a window, leave the window there and do
other <br>> work in another workspace and come back and watch some more. <br>> Occasionally, I would like to record certain shows.<br>><br>> Is there an option that is being worked on or planned to allow me <br>> to do that? Please understand that I love mythtv, so using tvtime <br>> or xawtv is not an option: they don't even work for me. Please <br>> don't tell me to buy a new disk. Also, I totally understand the <br>> default DVR mode. All I want is an "option" to trigger the true tv <br>> mode where in disk is not touched: I have plenty of memory, please <br>> use it as much as you want.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> -devsk<br><br>Your live TV recordings should be expiring as you run low on disk <br>space to free more up. If that's not happening you have some
other <br>issue.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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