[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Mar 6 15:14:27 UTC 2006


On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Graham Wood wrote:

> On Mon, March 6, 2006 14:44, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> Autoexpire will delete it when it is necessary to delete it to  
>> make room
>> for other recordings or within X days which is a configurable  
>> setting.
>> This has been discussed ad naseum on this list before, during, and  
>> after
>> the 0.19 release and there isn't any reason to change the behavior  
>> as it
>> works.
> It obviously doesn't work for /everyone/.
>
> An option to auto-delete at the end of watching it doesn't sound  
> like it
> would be too difficult to add (just add an 'immediate' option as  
> well as
> <x> days) - in fact can you set it to 0 days and it do this?
>
> (All of the opinions above are mine, I reserve the right to be  
> wrong, and
> I've never looked at the source)

I'm not sure why you think this doesn't work. I save 15GB on my drive  
for DVD's. There's a setting of how much space you want to keep free  
on your drive at all times. It will expire LiveTV before anything  
else. What more do you need it to do?



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