2012-08-13, 23:40
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(2012-08-13, 23:40)XBMCUser4657 Wrote: 2. MythTV appears to utilize this 'Auto-Expire' concept, which is somewhat confusing to me. It looks to me like MythTV constantly writes gigantic files to my NAS even as I simply watch TV. This means that just turning on Jeopardy for 1/2 hour results in a 3.5GB file, which doesn't go away when I stop watching the channel. Instead, it looks like MythTV wants to fill up the entirety of the space that I've given, and will 'auto-expire' the oldest live TV streams when it needs additional space. It feels like I'm doing an awful lot of writing to my discs which isn't necessary (I don't want those programs recorded...I just want to watch them).
download:
https://launchpad.net/~tfylliv/+archive/dvbhdhomerun/+files/dvbhdhomerun-dkms_0.0.9-2_all.deb
https://launchpad.net/~tfylliv/+archive/dvbhdhomerun/+files/dvbhdhomerun-utils_0.0.9-2_amd64.deb or https://launchpad.net/~tfylliv/+archive/dvbhdhomerun/+files/dvbhdhomerun-utils_0.0.9-2_i386.deb
install prereqs:
sudo apt-get install debhelper dkms libhdhomerun1
install debian packages:
sudo dpkg -i dvbhdhomerun*.deb
(2012-08-14, 00:33)nmcaullay Wrote: ...With the newest TVHeadend EPG options are improved and with this version: https://github.com/john-tornblom/tvheadend you can have transcoding with TVHeadend(works great on my Android device)
After a few months of use, I'm really happy with TVHeadend and how it works. It has less features (EPG recording options, timeshifting, transcoding etc), but if you want to just record something, and play it back in XBMC then it works great.
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(2012-08-14, 02:30)XBMCUser4657 Wrote: As far as the timeshifting goes - I was expecting it to work more like ForTheRecord. FTR has a timeshifting directory which contains nothing until you actually pause your live TV stream....then it starts writing. Once you stop the stream, it deletes the file (s).
I actually can see the value in beginning to record immediately when you tune to a station - what if you want to rewind and you hadn't paused? That's pretty killer actually. What's weird is that it leaves all these files on the server and never cleans them up until you run out of space. What advantage could that have? Maybe I will get used to it. I could always just create a new share for timeshifting and limit its capacity from the NAS.