[mythtv] How does mythtv decide which backend does the recording?

[cmisip]

Thanks a lot.  Looking forward to when this makes it to cvs.

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 08:42, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> Currently Myth just picks the first available input.  It doesn't take into
> account disk space at all except for the stopgap measure I put into
> cvs the other day to stop recording if the master backend filled up.
> 
> Last night I was looking at the code and think I found a relatively easy
> way to accomplish just what you're asking about.  I coded up a sample and
> tossed it Isaac's way and after talking about it we think it will work so
> I'm going to get something coded up and tested tonight hopefully.
> 
> I'll post another reply if I can get it working properly.  When Myth is
> scheduling what shows should be recorded on what backends I think I can get
> it to skip backends that are low on disk space by acting as if they are
> unavailable (since they really can't record anything anyway if they're full).
> 
> Long answer short: not today but hopefully tomorrow. :)
> 
> > I have two backends, one of them is out of space.  I had assumed that
> > mythtv would select the second backend for recording, however I found a
> > number of nuv files with zero size in the backend that was out of hard
> > disk space.  Does mythtv take into consideration the amount of hd space
> > when deciding which backend should do the recording.  If not this would
> > be a useful addition.  Thanks.