Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:44, Chris Picton wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > Piers Kittel wrote: > >> Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out > >> "Recorded Programs" on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded > >> every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the "Recorded > >> programs" about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched > >> the channel hop - took me a while to delete them all. Why would the > >> backend record all this and how do I stop this? > > > > Because of all the people who requested the recording of LiveTV (i.e. > > "I was watching LiveTV for 45 minutes and decided the show was worth > > keeping, so I hit 'r', but it didn't save the first 45 minutes of the > > show. This sucks!!!"). > > > > Search the lists for this issue being discussed ad nauseum--and it > > won't change (and you can't stop it, short of re-writing a significant > > portion of Myth in your own personal repository). > > This is in my mind a major step backwards in terms of usability. I > often browse Live TV to either check the time, or check the upcoming > schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all > the mini recordings. > > How about an option to say 'Automatically delete live recording buffers > when changing channels' or something like that. > > Chris > God man, your running SVN, if your running SVN you should be reading the dev list and you should be reading the back log of the dev list. There are some huge, major changes going on with LiveTV in SVN. Isaac and company are reworking how live tv works, adding new features, abilities, etc. One of these is the ability to easily watch live tv, record from live tv, etc. Try this link out, you'll learn a lot about myth! http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/ -- Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
> >You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable > >period of time( a day? ) > > > Can you auto expire them after a second? I don't think so. Can't remember the minimum off hand, either a minute or more likely a day. > My machine is running short on space. I am always fighting to keep > enough space free for the next few scheduled recordings. > I have never turned on auto-expire, though as my recorded shows are I don't think Auto expire is optional anymore though I could be incorrect about that. > hardly ever rebroadcast, so I don't want them deleted. Can you set myth > to only autoexpire a certain subset of your recordings? Honestly I've never looked to go that. I always have plenty of space. > Will it auto-expire while recording (Ie, if there is only 500Mb free and > dropping fast, start autoexpiring)? Yes it will. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Aha. Fair enough. Thanks very much for your comment! Clears up a lot of things. Makes a lot of sense. Was away for the last 4 months so this being included confused me somewhat :) Cheers - Piers Michael T. Dean wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out "Recorded Programs" on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the "Recorded programs" about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched the channel hop - took me a while to delete them all. Why would the backend record all this and how do I stop this? Because of all the people who requested the recording of LiveTV (i.e. "I was watching LiveTV for 45 minutes and decided the show was worth keeping, so I hit 'r', but it didn't save the first 45 minutes of the show. This sucks!!!"). Search the lists for this issue being discussed ad nauseum--and it won't change (and you can't stop it, short of re-writing a significant portion of Myth in your own personal repository). You probably want to set Myth so that the LiveTV recording group is not shown in Watch Recordings (should be set by default). On MythWeb--at least for now--you'll see them. Chris is busy working through a major rewrite of MythWeb, so when he finishes, he may add support for hiding the LiveTV group (this is not a promise, only a guess of when it may happen if it happens). Also, note that from the frontend, you can create a playlist that contains all your LiveTV recordings and delete them all at once. Or, if you're patient, they will autoexpire. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Chris Picton wrote: Greg Estabrooks wrote: schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable period of time( a day? ) Can you auto expire them after a second? My machine is running short on space. I am always fighting to keep enough space free for the next few scheduled recordings. I have never turned on auto-expire, though as my recorded shows are hardly ever rebroadcast, so I don't want them deleted. Can you set myth to only autoexpire a certain subset of your recordings? Of course. Each recording schedule has an autoexpire/don't autoexpire setting that is set at record time and can be changed post-recording as needed. . Plus if at anytime more space is required for a regular recording myth will expire livetv recordings first. Will it auto-expire while recording (Ie, if there is only 500Mb free and dropping fast, start autoexpiring)? Yes. As long as your auto-expire check frequency is high enough. I have mine set to a few minutes so that it will catch when I do things like copy a large DVD rip to the partition, etc. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Search the forums. Are we really talking about this again? On Dec 28, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Chris Picton wrote: Greg Estabrooks wrote: schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable period of time( a day? ) Can you auto expire them after a second? My machine is running short on space. I am always fighting to keep enough space free for the next few scheduled recordings. I have never turned on auto-expire, though as my recorded shows are hardly ever rebroadcast, so I don't want them deleted. Can you set myth to only autoexpire a certain subset of your recordings? . Plus if at anytime more space is required for a regular recording myth will expire livetv recordings first. Will it auto-expire while recording (Ie, if there is only 500Mb free and dropping fast, start autoexpiring)? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Greg Estabrooks wrote: schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable period of time( a day? ) Can you auto expire them after a second? My machine is running short on space. I am always fighting to keep enough space free for the next few scheduled recordings. I have never turned on auto-expire, though as my recorded shows are hardly ever rebroadcast, so I don't want them deleted. Can you set myth to only autoexpire a certain subset of your recordings? . Plus if at anytime more space is required for a regular recording myth will expire livetv recordings first. Will it auto-expire while recording (Ie, if there is only 500Mb free and dropping fast, start autoexpiring)? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
> schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all > the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable period of time( a day? ). Plus if at anytime more space is required for a regular recording myth will expire livetv recordings first. You can also configure mythfrontend to not show the livetv recordings in the watch recordings screen. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Michael T. Dean wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out "Recorded Programs" on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the "Recorded programs" about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched the channel hop - took me a while to delete them all. Why would the backend record all this and how do I stop this? Because of all the people who requested the recording of LiveTV (i.e. "I was watching LiveTV for 45 minutes and decided the show was worth keeping, so I hit 'r', but it didn't save the first 45 minutes of the show. This sucks!!!"). Search the lists for this issue being discussed ad nauseum--and it won't change (and you can't stop it, short of re-writing a significant portion of Myth in your own personal repository). This is in my mind a major step backwards in terms of usability. I often browse Live TV to either check the time, or check the upcoming schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. How about an option to say 'Automatically delete live recording buffers when changing channels' or something like that. Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Piers Kittel wrote: Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out "Recorded Programs" on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the "Recorded programs" about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched the channel hop - took me a while to delete them all. Why would the backend record all this and how do I stop this? Because of all the people who requested the recording of LiveTV (i.e. "I was watching LiveTV for 45 minutes and decided the show was worth keeping, so I hit 'r', but it didn't save the first 45 minutes of the show. This sucks!!!"). Search the lists for this issue being discussed ad nauseum--and it won't change (and you can't stop it, short of re-writing a significant portion of Myth in your own personal repository). You probably want to set Myth so that the LiveTV recording group is not shown in Watch Recordings (should be set by default). On MythWeb--at least for now--you'll see them. Chris is busy working through a major rewrite of MythWeb, so when he finishes, he may add support for hiding the LiveTV group (this is not a promise, only a guess of when it may happen if it happens). Also, note that from the frontend, you can create a playlist that contains all your LiveTV recordings and delete them all at once. Or, if you're patient, they will autoexpire. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Hello all, Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out "Recorded Programs" on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the "Recorded programs" about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched the channel hop - took me a while to delete them all. Why would the backend record all this and how do I stop this? Many thanks in advance! Regards - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
