[mythtv-users] Preview Errors caused by superfluous LiveTV zero length files?

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> And if they haven't been generated ahead of time, enabling their display
> would make the Watch Recordings screen completely unusable.  Since
> there's no harm in generating them, ...
> 
(In reference to preview images.) Mike, I know that this comes up every so 
often, and I know what your views on them are, but consider this:

Quite a lot of users have our video directories optimised to store honking great 
files, since that's what videos generally are. Unfortunately, preview files are 
generally only a few Kb, and there is often more than one per video, so, since 
our allocation blocks are usually much larger, the preview files do actually 
waste a lot of space.

Also, not all of us live in the States and and are able to get our disk space 
very cheaply.

I'm not against preview files, although I personally consider them a waste of 
time. Other people may find them useful. However, wouldn't it be helpful in the 
case of the allocation problem if they went in their own directory, which could 
have smaller allocation sizes?

In fact, thinking about it, a directory name of the form 
..../previews/<size>/<name>.png might be preferable to some of the strange 
filenames I keep seeing in my video directory.

Mike Perkins