[mythtv] Autoexpire doesn't remove LiveTV files
Bryan Mayland
bmayland at leoninedev.com
Tue Nov 22 15:17:57 EST 2005
Chris Pinkham wrote:
>> The new autoexpire method doesn't work for the LiveTV recordings on my
>> system. I have tons of tiny files in my recording list marked with an
>> RIP symbol now.
>>
>
> Doesn't sound like you're running current SVN.
>
I was seeing this last night too, running r7972. I ended up with 20
or so live-tv recordings that were still there this morning. I exited
by hitting escape on livetv, escape on the main menu, then selected yes
to exit. I was going in and out a lot as I was trying to track down why
I couldn't seek forward / back.
Some did go away, because I was on a lot of channels I don't show
livetv recordings for. Maybe it only left the file from the channel I
exited from? I can't say with any certainty.
On the last program I was watching, I hit R to have myth record the
whole thing and then exited livetv. The recording stopped when I left
livetv, but it was moved to the default program group. That's something
else altogether though.
> Long LiveTV recordings (ie, > 1 minute long) will expire the same as normal
> programs but htey have their autoexpire field set to 10000 which causes
> LiveTV recordings to expire before normal recordings.
>
So what defines their lifetime? Is the autoexpire of "long" livetv
files scheduled differently than short files? I'm just curious, I can
look it up in the source if you don't want to answer that.
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