[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

[David Brodbeck]

devsk wrote:
> > Your live TV recordings should be expiring as you run low on disk  
> > space to free more up. If that's not happening you have some other  
> > issue.
>
> they will expire if a new file is created. that means 5 (I hope that's
> the wake up time for auto-expire thread) minutes before my disk
> becomes full, I have to change channel and come back. If I don't do
> that, it cannot expire the file its writing to. Because it hangs when
> disk becomes full, it confirms that it can not auto-expire the file
> its writing.

I believe it will also create a new file when the guide data indicates a
new show is starting, so as long as you have enough space for the
largest show you want to watch, it should be OK.