[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Steven Ellis wrote:

>
> On Wed, November 29, 2006 12:28 pm, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> devsk wrote:
>>>> Your live TV recordings should be expiring as you run low on disk
>>>> space to free more up. If that's not happening you have some other
>>>> issue.
>>>
>>> they will expire if a new file is created. that means 5 (I hope  
>>> that's
>>> the wake up time for auto-expire thread) minutes before my disk
>>> becomes full, I have to change channel and come back. If I don't do
>>> that, it cannot expire the file its writing to. Because it hangs  
>>> when
>>> disk becomes full, it confirms that it can not auto-expire the file
>>> its writing.
>>
>> I believe it will also create a new file when the guide data  
>> indicates a
>> new show is starting, so as long as you have enough space for the
>> largest show you want to watch, it should be OK.
>
> Bit of a problem if you watch a channel with no guide data. It will  
> just
> keep recording won't it?
>
> Steve

There's a hard break put in there in such an event. I don't remember  
what it's set to. 4 hours or something.