<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;">I just wanna leave it on all the time, and probably come out of it only when I (or it) want to record something. its one tv that you can leave ON and not worry about the electricity bill....:-)<br><br>why thrash disk when it doesn't need to? Spin up is not the only cost. Head movement, power consumption and heat are a cost too. They all take away months (if not years) from drive's life for no reason. Why write to disk only to erase it later? There should be a switch to toggle this behavior.<br><br>-devsk<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us><br>To: Discussion about mythtv
<mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:28:36 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] An option for watching tv<br><br><div>devsk wrote:<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>> they will expire if a new file is created. that means 5 (I hope that's<br>> the wake up time for auto-expire thread) minutes before my disk<br>> becomes full, I have to change channel and come back. If I don't do<br>> that, it cannot expire the file its writing to. Because it hangs when<br>> disk becomes full, it confirms that it can not auto-expire the file<br>> its writing.<br><br>I believe it will also create a new file when the guide data indicates a<br>new show is starting, so as long as you have enough space for the<br>largest show you want to watch, it should be
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