[mythtv-users] / filling on attempted nuvexport

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:25, Jeff C wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to use NUVExport on a .14 system to extract the audio
> track from a concert I recorded.  I run through the menus, select it,
> select .MP3 as the output format and then watch it run.  It rapidly
> chews through all the space (1.7G) on my root partition, even though
> I specified the output directory to be on a different partition.  It
> would definitely appear that it is using / as its temporary holding
> spot.  Is this unique to the MP3 export, or do all the exports do
> this?
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a lot of space there so it fills and dies
> and then I have to clean up after it.  Is there somewhere I can
> change the temp directory for it?

I believe the default is for nuvexport to create a subdirectory for its 
FIFOs in the current directory.  Try 'cd'-ing to a directory on a 
partition with more space before running nuvexport.

-JAC