[mythtv-users] Help! - Mythtv is expiring the wrong recordings

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Mon Sep 22 11:04:16 UTC 2008


I've just noticed that mythv (0.20.2.svn20071021-0.2) has started
expiring the wrong recordings.

Eg (one which will annoy the children)

2008-09-20 19:23:02.124 Started recording: Merlin "The Dragon's Call": channel 2501 on cardid 2, sourceid 2
2008-09-20 20:22:00.572 Finished recording Merlin "The Dragon's Call": channel 2501
2008-09-20 20:22:02.508 Finished recording Merlin "The Dragon's Call": channel 2501
2008-09-21 21:56:20.781 Expiring Merlin "The Dragon's Call" from Sat Sep 20 19:30:00 2008, 2493 MBytes, free space is too low (have 2992 MBytes free , but want 3244 MBytes)
2008-09-21 22:01:20.927 Expiring Merlin "The Dragon's Call" from Sat Sep 20 19:30:00 2008, 2493 MBytes, free space is too low (have 2780 MBytes free , but want 3244 MBytes)
2008-09-21 22:06:21.077 Expiring Merlin "The Dragon's Call" from Sat Sep 20 19:30:00 2008, 2493 MBytes, free space is too low (have 2570 MBytes free , but want 3244 MBytes)
2008-09-21 22:10:13.042 Expiring Merlin "The Dragon's Call" from Sat Sep 20 19:30:00 2008, 2493 MBytes, free space is too low (have 2541 MBytes free , but want 3244 MBytes)

I have lots of other older stuff which can be auto expired according
to the web interface, eg about 100GB of stuff starting from 19th
August onwards.

mysql> select starttime, title, subtitle from recorded where autoexpire != 0 order by starttime;

+---------------------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| starttime           | title                                            | subtitle                                  |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| 2008-08-17 22:13:00 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show                    |                                           |
| 2008-08-17 22:53:00 | Educating Rita                                   |                                           |
| 2008-08-18 19:53:00 | The Genius of Charles Darwin                     |                                           |
| 2008-08-18 20:53:00 | New Tricks                                       | Communal Living                           |
| 2008-08-18 21:33:00 | Mock the Week                                    |                                           |
| 2008-08-18 22:28:00 | The Man Who Cycled the World                     |                                           |
[snip]
| 2008-09-19 19:23:00 | An Island Parish                                 |                                           |
| 2008-09-19 20:53:00 | The Tudors                                       |                                           |
| 2008-09-19 22:38:00 | Book at Bedtime: Someone at a Distance           | Someone at a Distance                     |
| 2008-09-20 19:23:00 | The X Factor                                     |                                           |
| 2008-09-20 22:23:00 | Arena                                            | The Hunt for Moby-Dick                    |
| 2008-09-21 15:23:00 | The Simpsons                                     | Blame It on Lisa                          |
| 2008-09-21 15:53:00 | The Simpsons                                     | Weekend at Burnsie's                      |
| 2008-09-21 18:53:00 | Antiques Roadshow                                |                                           |
| 2008-09-21 19:23:00 | Arena                                            | The Whale in the Museum                   |
| 2008-09-21 23:23:00 | Panorama                                         |                                           |
| 2008-09-22 00:33:00 | Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends                   | UFOs                                      |
| 2008-09-22 09:38:00 | Book of the Week: This Is Not About Me           | This Is Not About Me                      |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
49 rows in set (0.00 sec)

However "mythbackend --printexpire" only shows stuff recorded recently
which is the problem I guess.

MythTV AutoExpire List (programs listed in order of expiration)
Arena: "The Hunt for Moby-Dick"          2439MiB  Sat Sep 20 22:30:00 2008 [ -4]
The Simpsons: "Blame It on Lisa"         1298MiB  Sun Sep 21 15:30:00 2008 [-30]
The Simpsons: "Weekend at Burnsie's"     1336MiB  Sun Sep 21 16:00:00 2008 [-30]
Antiques Roadshow                        3102MiB  Sun Sep 21 19:00:00 2008 [ -4]
Arena: "The Whale in the Museum"            0MiB  Sun Sep 21 19:30:00 2008 [ -4]
Panorama                                 1394MiB  Sun Sep 21 23:30:00 2008 [  2]
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: "UFOs"   1534MiB  Mon Sep 22 00:40:00 2008 [  0]
Book of the Week: This Is Not About Me:   374MiB  Mon Sep 22 09:45:00 2008 [  0]

Any ideas what might have happened or what I could check?

Thanks

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick


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