[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

devsk funtoos at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 28 23:39:12 UTC 2006


I just wanna leave it on all the time, and probably come out of it only when I  (or it) want to record something. its one tv that you can leave ON and not worry about the electricity bill....:-)

why thrash disk when it doesn't need to? Spin up is not the only cost. Head movement, power consumption and heat are a cost too. They all take away months (if not years) from drive's life for no reason. Why write to disk only to erase it later? There should be a switch to toggle this behavior.

-devsk

----- Original Message ----
From: David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:28:36 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

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.
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