I have installed KnoppMyth R5E50 and it looks pretty good. I need to tweak the picture on my television, but that is not my primary concern.

I have recorded everything that is on since I turned on my MythTV box. This is not intentional. I go to manage my recorded programs and I see that everything that has been on since I turned on the box gets recorded. If I'm on channel 5 for five minutes that gets recorded. If I switch to channel 11 and that is where it is when I go to bed, everything on channel 11 gets recorded from the time I go to bed until the time I change it when I get up in the morning and change the channel. Then the new channel starts recording.

It is probably something simple. But I need some advice on how to stop this.

Thanks!

My MythTV box:

Sempron 2800+, Socket 754
ECS 755-A2 mobo
512MB DDR400 memory
Nvidia GeForceFX 5200 graphics card
Hauppagge PVR-500 card
Chaintech 7.1 Channel PCI Sound Card
300GB PATA hard drive

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a feature of MythTV? When I watch live TV (not often I have to admit!) the programme that is being shown is recorded immediately, and you're actually watching the recording. This enables you to pause and rewind "live" TV.

I recommend that you exit "Watch TV" when you're finished to stop it recording.

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Version: R5.5
Processor: Via C7 1.33GHz with CN400
Memory: 512Mb
Hard disk: 500Gb SATA
Capture cards: 2x Hauppauge Nova-T

I think this was part of the elimination of the swap file, now everthing is recorded and then discarded after a certain time frame this is really a nice feature because you can always go back and watch the shows and save them.
Really important to have a good amount of drive space if you leave Myth running in watch mode.

You are correct, Automatically recording everything you watch is "Live TV" at it's best. This is something that can really raise the WAF. It is one of the main ideas that has spawned the "Tivo" craze. Mostly the ability to Pause, Rewind, play in Slo Mo, and of course skip commercials up to the Live TV point in a recording.

This function is so big it has made "Tivo" a generic word like Kleenex. With that you see things like I am going to "Tivo" the game today. It really means they are goingto capture the game on some sort of Digital Video recording device and "Time shift" the playback.

Anyway, back to the original question.
The selection of "Watch TV" generates multiple Temporary recordings in your Recorded programs list. They usually show up under "Live TV" They follow the Recording Profiles for Live TV and as such are usually somewhat higher bit rate than a normal timeshifted recording. They however are set to automatically Expire or be erased when the disk reaches a threshold and the settings you made for that type of recording allow you them to be erased by the box. Typically if you go to Information Center > System Status > Machine Status at the bottom is the Autoexpire recording list. You should see all of those "Live TV" shows in that list at the very top at least on mine. If that isn't how it is functioning you may want ot check some of the settings in the manual.

The easiest way to not have it generate lots of these, is to leave "Watch TV" when you are done watching TV.

Hope that is helpful! Enjoy.

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KnoppMyth R5.5
MBE: AMD64 3400+, K8N Neo4 Plat., 1Gig, Asus Extreme N6200, 320G pata, 2x320Gsata, 750Gsata, PVR-150 Retail w/Blaster
SBE: AMD XP2000, GA 7ZMMH, 1 Gig, XFX 256M 6200, 20 Gig, PVR-150 Retail w/Blaster
SBE: AMD Dur1800, 512M, PVR500

From the main menu in the GUI go to: Utilities/Setup -> Setup-> TV Settings -> Playback -> 4th page and turn off: Show "LiveTV" recordings when using "All Programs" filter

Out of sight, out of mind.

The system uses some very clever and sophisticated techniques to do the right thing with "LiveTV" recordings. This was a major improvement which was added back in MythTV 0.19, and once you get past obsessing about the "extra" recordings (which it needs to make anyway and used to do in a much less useful way) it has a lot of benefits. Things like not missing the last 10 minutes of a movie you were watching "live" because you were behind real time when the system grabbed the tuner card for a (non-overlapping) scheduled recording.

Oh, and like mhawkshaw says, exit LiveTV when you done watching it. It'll save some wear and tear on the harddrive. Ditto with not leaving it sitting on the "watch recordings" menu with live previews running.

Thanks to all of you who replied. I took tjc's suggestion.

Thanks tjc!

This was aslo ueful for me.

Best,

scarrgo

and me. (I just upgraded R5B7 to R5E50)