[mythtv-users] Recording auto-expired 1 hour after it finished recording

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 00:19:44 UTC 2010


I put the Wimbledon men's tennis final to record last night and my
children were really looking forward to watching it today. But when we
came to watch it it wasn't in the Watch Recordings list. I looked in
mythbackend.log and found that it had auto-expired. Here's a log
extract:

2010-07-05 00:03:26.031 scheduler: Started recording: Wimbledon 2010
"Men's Final": channel 1009 on cardid 7, sourceid 1
...
2010-07-05 02:35:02.353 scheduler: Finished recording: Wimbledon 2010
"Men's Final": channel 1009
...
2010-07-05 03:32:46.574 Expiring 7093 MBytes for 1009 @ Sun Jul 4
22:30:00 2010 => Wimbledon 2010 "Men's Final"
2010-07-05 03:32:46.619 autoexpire: Expiring Program: Expiring 7093
MBytes for 1009 @ Sun Jul 4 22:30:00 2010 => Wimbledon 2010 "Men's
Final"

Why on earth did it auto-expire less than an hour after it had finished?

I've also noticed that I've got other recordings from ages ago that
should have auto-expired but are still hanging around. Is it possible
that I have some strange rules in my setup somewhere that's causing
odd expiry behaviour?

Regards,
Phill


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