[mythtv-users] Myth records until drive is full (auto-expire is off)
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 08:44:51 UTC 2008
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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