[mythtv] Autoexpire doesn't remove LiveTV files

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:56, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 06:27 pm, Carl Lewis wrote:
> > Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > > They expire just like normal recordings, so their lifetime is
> > > determined by how much disk space you have free.  The only LiveTV
> > > recordings that expire even when you have lots of free space available
> > > are the short (< 1 minute) recordings.
> >
> > Any intention to make the value of "short" modifiable via the front-end?
> > Is it a "feature" that'd be considered if I supplied a patch?
> >
> > The wife surfs live TV a fair bit and she has a longer attention
> > span (or lower bullshit threshold, I'm not sure which :-)
> > so given a choice I'd set short to about 90 minutes or so.
> > It'd also have the effect of not cluttering up my disk
> > and recording listing.
>
> Wasn't planning on it - the intention was to clear out really short things
> generated from channel flipping quickly, and then allow the autoexpirer to
> delete longer ones as it needed space.  If you don't want longer programs
> cluttering up the listings, though, I think you can switch to the 'Default'
> program group and they won't show up.
>
> Isaac

'Default' will show only specificly recorded programs and not buffer files?

Steve