[mythtv-commits] Ticket #3618: LiveTV Safeguards

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#3618: LiveTV Safeguards
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 Reporter:  stuartm  |       Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  task     |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv   |     Version:  head   
 Severity:  medium   |     Mlocked:  0      
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 We really need some more effective safeguards to prevent livetv recording
 to a single file for two days straight and causing auto-expire to delete
 all the other recordings. Even if all the known livetv bugs are fixed the
 ones we don't know about have the potential to do a lot of damage.

 The safeguards have to be handled somewhere where a loop in the recorder
 or playback code won't prevent those conditions from ever being checked. I
 was using my idle timer on that machine, but it never got a chance to work
 - I assume because we were stuck in a loop (possibly the "LiveTV JumpTo 1"
 loop).

 Right now the precaution of never recording a programme that is more than
 6 hours long is based on guide data, we don't use a timer to actually
 check how long we have been recording. We also need a check on filesizes
 so that we don't exceed an maximum e.g. 10Gb for SD

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