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

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:14 PM, William wrote:

> The quote got too long so I snipped it. The issue is the music  
> channels (not
> mtv but a commercial free music only channel like Sirrus radio)  
> plays music
> in 8 hour blocks according to the tv guide. Therefor the file grows to
> 20+gigs. Now if I could set a different drive for the live tv files  
> that
> only had 2-3 gigs I would be able to use the more recent release  
> again. Of
> course that drive would run out of room in 2 hours or so and would  
> crash
> myth when it had to delete the only file available, the live tv  
> buffer in
> use. Perhaps the solution would be to make each frontend keep its  
> own live
> tv files locally and not save them to the main store unless  
> specifically
> told to save a show.
>
> BTW - I am not short on space, I have 3 drives in an array  
> totalling ~650GB.
> I would store older shows on dvd if there was support for utilizing  
> a dvd
> full of recordings as an extra drive. IE - When you insert the  
> disk, the
> shows on disk would appear in the listings on every frontend. Then  
> all you
> would need is a DVD changer with support for 200+ dvds and  
> autoselecting the
> dvd to play when a program is selected.
>
>
How about if the OP just buys his son an old-fashioned device called  
a "radio" and we can all move on ??