[mythtv] Autoexpire doesn't remove LiveTV files

[Sasha Z]

I hate having livetv files so much that I edited the menu to disable
the function. Too bad, I actually liked being able to pause livetv
every now and then (or to surf and use the guide info).

On 11/23/05, Adam Egger <mythtv2005 at bdam.de> wrote:
> On 11/22/05, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> 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'm updating on a daily basis, so the revision I'm using now is now ~ 8000.
>
> > > My autoexpire is turned off globally because I absolutely don't want
> > > myth to remove any recorded files, because everything I record I
> > > really want to keep. Now I turned Autoexpire to on but the small files
> > > still don't disappear.
> >
> > How did you turn it On/Off since that setting went away in database schema
> > update 1105 in Changeset 7863?
> >
> >         http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7863
>
> Ok, I just didn't set autoexpire to "On" expicitly, so I assume it was
> automatically set to On in [7863]. I switched from "oldest first" to
> "lowest recording priority" but it still doesn't remove anything.
>
> > > I've started the backend with -v file, now it shows me that the "Do
> > > not autoexpire" list is growing:
> >
> > And it may a little while you're watching LiveTV, but yours looks weird.
> > The do not expire list contains items from the inuseprograms table which is
> > cleaned up automatically whenever a NuppelVideoPlayer exits or a recorder
> > finishes.  Were you killing and restarting the backend or anything?  The
> > cleanup of stray entries in this table`happens once a day in the
> > housekeeper.
>
> I stopped my backend quite often yesterday to check if a BE restart
> removes the recorded files. But really nothing helps, I have more than
> one hundred LiveTV entries in my recording list now (all of them are <
> 1 minute).
>
> > 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.
>
> Does a manual switch from LiveTV to another recording group on a
> specific recording reset the high autoexpire value as well?
>
> System data:
> Debian32 sid
> Kernel 2.6.14
> reiserfs 3.6
> MythTV from SVN - Revision 8000
> Using DVB-t in Germany with b2c2_flexcop_pci / skystar2
>
> Adam
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