[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, November 29, 2006 12:28 pm, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 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.

Bit of a problem if you watch a channel with no guide data. It will just
keep recording won't it?

Steve

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