[mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled recording

[Fred Squires]

On 1/13/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 13 January 2006 07:04, SpEnT wrote:
> > On 1/12/06, Johan Venter <johan at vulturest.com> wrote:
> > > SpEnT wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure if there's something I may have done but after
> upgrading
> > > > to svn 8566, everytime I watch TV it recods what I'm watching and
> > > > keeps the file. I ran a watch -n1 where I store my recorded programs
> > > > and everyimte I changed the channel it adds a new mpg file as an
> > > > example heres a file listing:
> > >
> > > This is how LiveTV works now. I know it's a standard response, but if
> > > you're going to run SVN, you need to be following the dev list.
> > >
> > > > This was just changing channels and it fills up the directory where
> I
> > > > store my recordings. Does anyone have any ideas why it would be
> doing
> > > > this or what I might have to change to fix it? Any help is
> > > > appreciated!!
> > >
> > > If you have your LiveTV auto-expire settings correct, you will never
> run
> > > out of disk space - it will delete the oldest LiveTV recordings based
> on
> > > your preferences to make room for actual scheduled recordings.
> >
> > I'm just going to use an older version. While watching live TV
> > sometimes when it gets to the end of a program the screen just freezes
> > and I have to exit out and start live TV again (I was wondering why it
> > always seemed to freeze right at 1/2 past the hour or right on the
>
> this is the new ringbuffer change, its closing out the old ringbuffer for
> the
> show you were watching and creating the new one for the new show. The
> dev's
> are working on minimizing the time delay, and some circumstances (mostly
> with
> PVR cards but I think this bug may have been fixed already) have led this
> to
> cause a freeze, though newer SVN's may already have this fixed (I've only
> noticed the freeze happen once in watching Live TV so I feel lucky).
>
> > hour), plus now in the listings for recorded programs in Mythweb I
> > show 50 files ;) ... some of them are really small ones due to only
> > watching a channel for a few minuntes. I've saved some older versions
> > that worked the old way so I'll stop using svn.
>
> MythWeb is also going to be/already has been updated to have a similar
> option
> to ignore the livetv recordings.
>
>
> > Either way thanks for he info :)
>

Will the option to hide the live TV recordings completely hide the
recordings or will they simply be hidden in the "All Recordings" section,
with a "Live TV" section on left with the show names?

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