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

[Nick Morrott]

On 01/12/2008, homer <homer39 at bigpond.com> 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?

No top-posting please!

MythTV already records into 30-minute chunks when no programme data is
available. I do not believe it deletes old LiveTV recordings over and
above what the auto-expirer does. LiveTV recordings should be set to
auto-expire by default, so that they can be deleted to make room for
scheduled recordings.

What's the output of 'mythbackend --version' on your system? Are you
running an older release?

Nick

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