Donavan Stanley wrote:
Kevin Kuphal wrote:
Todd Tidwell wrote:
How about, then, a simple "Autoexpire LiveTV Recordings After
Viewing" that
just simply means they get autoexpired as soon as you change the
channel or
stop viewing LiveTV? That doesn't seem like it would burden anyone
in terms
of adding to the complexity.
The answer here basically boils down to: You're thinking of your
MythTV box like a computer and not like a DVR. Why do you care how
much disk space is being used currently by recordings that you cannot
see from the UI and will be removed automatically to make space for
other recordings?
Because MythMusic, MythDVD, MythVideo, and MythGallery have no way to
gain extra space on the disk? Myth is a whole lot more than just
recording TV. I've not mucked around with the new LiveTV code but I
can understand why some folks would be concerned about drive space.
As you could before LiveTV changes, you can set the buffer over which
Myth will not consume space. This guarantees available space for the
other plugins. Also, you can set your auto-expire frequency to a low
number so that when you do copy data for the other modules Myth will
reclaim space quickly as the disk is filled (I just did this yesterday
with a .VOB rip on a full Myth partition). All of this is no different
than pre-LiveTV changes, which Isaac has been saying all along. This
only *real* difference is that you may encounter this situation faster
because more recordings are occuring but this "issue" is as real
pre-LiveTV changes as it was post and Myth handles it very well.
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