On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Pinkham</b> <<a href="mailto:cpinkham@bc2va.org">cpinkham@bc2va.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* On Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 02:56:43AM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:<br>> I also think chunking individual live-tv recordings to be a max of 6 hours or<br>> so if they've not been set to keep with togglerecord is probably a good idea.
<br>> Wouldn't be hard for someone to implement.<br>><br>> Isaac<br><br>The person writing the patch could also make it intelligent so that the<br>recorder could chunk into smaller chunks if we are low on disk space.
<br><br>It would be fairly easy to break the recording up into smaller chunks<br>if we were short on disk space because we know the current filesize and<br>time recorded so we could calculate the bitrate and estimate how long
<br>we had left until the disk filled up. This would let us keep on<br>recording because we would have small chunks (maybe 30 minutes) that could<br>be expired as time kept progressing.<br><br>--<br>Chris</blockquote><div>
<br><br>If you're doing a "wish list" for such auto-splitting of LiveTV recording ( which I think is a very good feature to have ) what about this: Allow a flag to start the chunking on the next "real" 30-minute time slot. Since most shows start / end either on the hour or half-past the hour, this would "clean up" the recordings.
<br><br>Example: You start watching at 18:20 and have this feature enabled. It will capture the first ten minutes as one recording then, at 18:30, it will cut over and start a new recording. If you have it set to work in 60 minute time blocks then this recording will run from 18:30 to 19:30 and it will cut again.
<br><br>-Lawrence<br>"Looking forward to getting MythTV running SOON"<br></div></div>