[mythtv-users] Myth records until drive is full (auto-expire is off)

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:47 PM, homer wrote:

> Hello,
> 	The biggest problem I have is when I am just watching tv (through the
> composite input as I have to do with Foxtel/Austar) it stores it in 1
> huge file.  Especially if Myth is left on "Watch TV" and I go out  
> for a
> couple of hours/days.
>
> 	What I would like to see is if there is no program information about
> what is being currently viewed (EIT) AND it is not scheduled for
> recording, that MythTV will break up the video into (for example) 30
> minute blocks and delete anything older than X minutes old.
>
> 	This should help overcome the running out of room problem and also
> prevent 6-7Gb files residing on 1 partition.
>
> 	Thoughts anyone?

I think it already does this. I seem to remember it having a max of 6  
hours, but it's not (yet another) configurable option since not many  
people would ever run into this problem.

-Brad