[mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching

[Chad]

On 7/16/06, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> chris at cpr.homelinux.net <chris at cpr.homelinux.net> says:
> > Second, both 0.18 and 0.19 users have complained again and again
> > about the auto-expire not working and how it causes their partition
> > to hit 100% and kill the machine.  I therefore don't trust
> > auto-expire and manually manage the recorded programs.
>
> I haven't had such problems in seven months of running 0.18.1 and now
> 0.19-fixes, for what it's worth. Of those months, the system has been
> essentially 100% full for the last four. If this is a concern, writing
> a simple shell script that cron runs to check on free space and
> sending out alerts (wall, email, audio, etc.) is, compared to the rest
> of MythTV system maintenance, child's play.
>
> > Third (as I mentioned in a previous email), the way the system
> > selects which shows to expire is not satisfactory.  If I leave my
> > shows expire-enabled then it will delete the wrong ones (my POV)
> > because it looks at their age and schedule status but not the
> > priority I assigned to them.
>
> ??? I have Setup|TV Settings|General|Auto Expire Method set to Lowest
> Priority First and this works great.
>
> I set programs that get repeated often or otherwise aren't that
> important to -2 within their recording schedules (Scheduling
> Options|Recording Priority). Two examples: _The Simpsons_ reruns,
> almost all of which I've seen already but still like to watch if one
> strikes my fancy, and _Sunrise Earth_. Programs that are just a bit
> more important, but still not a big deal if I don't get to them before
> expiration, I mark as -1. On the flip side, I also mark as such
> programs I definitely don't want to ever auto expire.
>
> This way, the system constantly fills up empty storage space with
> lower-priority programs (it's a good idea to set a maximum number of
> episodes kept for each such recording schedule, and optionally the
> "Delete oldest if this would exceed max episodes" setting), and that's
> OK because they're also the first to go when the system needs more
> space (for TiVo owners, think of how auto-recorded programs are always
> the first to go). And if, occasionally, I don't get home in time and
> the system--having first chewed through the buffer of lower-priority
> programs--ends up deleting one or two movies I recorded four months
> ago on a lark? Big deal; if I never got around to watching them I
> probably never would have. And, again, the movies I've marked to never
> auto expire are quite safe amidst all this.
>
> --
> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US
> _______________________________________________

And a great point to add to the end of that great example of a
properly configured system to TV Wish.  It will allow you to actually
let your system kill auto-expirable programs while still having them
setup to record at some point in time in the future.

-Chad