[mythtv-users] Live TV expires too quickly.

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com>wrote:

> On Aug 20, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> > I have a 500GB HD dedicated to recordings. It pretty much stays full
> > and old recordings are expired to make room for new recordings. I
> > have not changed any of the settings related to how long recordings
> > are kept.
> >
> > The problem I have is that since Live TV is always expired before
> > scheduled recordings, I basically never have anything in the Live TV
> > group. If I go into the recordings menu immediately after exiting
> > Live TV and change the group filter I see a Live TV group. Less than
> > 5 minutes later it's gone.
> >
> > How do I keep Live TV from expiring so quickly?
>
> Record it instead of watching it live.
> No, really.. if you want to keep something, press R(ecord) while
> watching it. It will be magically transformed into a regular recording.
>

Well, in this particular case,  I didn't know I wanted to record it until
after the fact.

Basically, my inlaws came over and missed Phelps winning his eighth gold so
I was going to show them how cool my MythTV box was and go back and let them
watch it when I realized it had already been erased.

I wouldn't worry about it too much but I figure, what's the point of
recording Live TV (beyond what is necessary to pause or rewind to watch
something you missed) if it's just going to get deleted one minute after you
exit Live TV.

Richard

Richard
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