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

[Dag Nygren]

> > If MTV is
> > showing a 20-hour "Music Videos" block--that shows on your listings  
> > as a
> > single program--it will be (at most) a 20-hour recording (but I don't
> > think MTV plays music videos, anymore, anyway, so that's unlikely to
> > cause problems ;).
> 
> Also note that even when MTV does play a few hours of music videos,  
> it's always broken up into 1 hour shows that says "Music Videos"  
> which is why I suggested he post a repeatable test case and open a  
> bug report because I suspect he is lying.

There is a problem here, but it is smaller than I thought from the beginning.
I also ran into it during the Olympics, from where we had very long unbroken
transmissions, 4-5 hours.
At that time I also ran out of disk space because the autoexpire will not
expire an ongoing program.
At this point Myth will crash miserably and give you a black screen.

Another time running an SVN version I saw the autoexpire never kick in,
haven't seen that again though.

So there is definitely an issue here, but not necessarily the philosophy, but 
some
implementation quirks.

Dag