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Automatic cleaning of recordings

Added by Sébastien Aubry over 12 years ago

Hello,
I am using XBMCBuntu Eden + tvheadend 2.12.99~pulse-6.
Quite often, the old recordings are not deleted from my hard disk in order to make some space for the new ones.
This results in a full hard disk, also causing problem with the EPG grabbing and potentially making tvheadend crash.
Is there any way to specify a minimum space amount tvheadend should regularly check and free up? I have seen in the FAQ that this should be automatic but it looks like not enough old recordings are deleted. How to fix this?
From my old Windows setups, I would say that I need about 20 GB of free space before starting to record (sometimes recordings 3 or 4 movies at the same time).
Thanks


/usr/bin$ tvheadend &
[1] 9042
[INFO]:dvb: Found adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0 (DiBcom 3000MC/P) via USB (480 Mbit/s)
[INFO]:dvb: Found adapter /dev/dvb/adapter1 (DiBcom 3000MC/P) via USB (480 Mbit/s)
[INFO]:xmltv: Grabbing "France" using command "/usr/bin/tv_grab_fr" 
[INFO]:dvr: Creating new configuration ''
[INFO]:CSA: Using SSE2 128bit parallel descrambling
[NOTICE]:START: HTS Tvheadend version 2.12.99~pulse-6 started, running as PID:9042 UID:1000 GID:1000, settings located in '/home/spontex/.hts/tvheadend'
[INFO]:AVAHI: Service 'Tvheadend' successfully established.
[INFO]:dvr: "Irène" on "W9" recorder starting
[INFO]:subscription: "DVR: Irène" subscribing on "W9", weight: 300, adapter: "DiBcom 3000MC/P", network: "F", mux: "F: 522,000 kHz", provider: "MULTI4", service: "W9", quality: 100
[INFO]:dvr: "Pirates" on "France 4" recorder starting
[INFO]:subscription: "DVR: Pirates" subscribing on "France 4", weight: 300, adapter: "DiBcom 3000MC/P", network: "F", mux: "F: 610,000 kHz", provider: "NTN", service: "France 4", quality: 100
[ERROR]:MKV: /pchc_f/Recorded TV/Pirates/France-4-Pirates.2012-05-13.22-30-1.mkv: Unable to write -- No space left on device
[INFO]:dvr: France 4-Pirates.2012-05-13.22-30 from adapter: "DiBcom 3000MC/P", network: "F", mux: "F: 610,000 kHz", provider: "NTN", service: "France 4" 
[INFO]:dvr:  # type                 lang resolution       samplerate channels  
[INFO]:dvr:  1 MPEG2VIDEO                720 x 576                              
[INFO]:dvr:  2 MPEG2AUDIO           fra                   48000      2          
[INFO]:dvr:  3 MPEG2AUDIO           eng                   48000      2          
[INFO]:dvr:  4 DVBSUB               fra                                         
[INFO]:dvr:  5 DVBSUB               fra                                         
[ERROR]:MKV: /pchc_f/Recorded TV/Irène/W9-Irène.2012-05-13.22-20-1.mkv: Unable to write -- No space left on device
[INFO]:dvr: W9-Irène.2012-05-13.22-20 from adapter: "DiBcom 3000MC/P", network: "F", mux: "F: 522,000 kHz", provider: "MULTI4", service: "W9" 
[INFO]:dvr:  # type                 lang resolution       samplerate channels  
[INFO]:dvr:  3 MPEG2VIDEO                720 x 576                              
[INFO]:dvr:  1 MPEG2AUDIO           eng                   48000      2          
[INFO]:dvr:  2 MPEG2AUDIO           qad                   48000      2          
[INFO]:dvr:  4 MPEG2AUDIO           fra                   48000      2          
[INFO]:dvr:  5 DVBSUB               fra                                         
[INFO]:dvr:  6 DVBSUB               fra

Replies (27)

RE: Automatic cleaning of recordings - Added by Sébastien Aubry about 11 years ago

Mark Kirkpatrick wrote:

FYI I have a very new ffmpeg but the script is using handbrake for some time now the ffmpeg were commented out:

  1. $enc_opts = '-map 0 -map -0:a:1 -c:v libx264 -s:v:0 640x480 -c:a:0 libfdk_aac -flags +qscale -global_quality 3 -afterburner 1 -ac:0 2 -c:s copy -crf 24';
  2. $hbret = `/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "${mfile}" -preset veryslow ${enc_opts} "${mediatitle}"`;
    $enc_opts = 'bframes=8:b-adapt=2:direct=auto:me=umh:merange=24:partitions=all:rc-lookahead=60:ref=16:subme=10:trellis=2:psy-rd=1.0,0.2';
    $hbret = `/usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i ${mfile} -I -v -e x264 -q 24 -w 640 --loose-anamorphic -a 1 -E faac -B 128 -f mkv -N eng -s 1,2 -m -x ${enc_opts} -o "${mediatitle}"`;

( so it is possible that the c:v syntax is no longer valid. handbrake runs the same libx264 but has easier subtitle inclusion )

Hi,
What I don't get is that in the script you sent earlier, the ffmpeg lines were not commented out:

    if ( $mfile =~ /\.mkv/ ) # change to Switch to decide if blueray or dvd source
    { 
    $enc_opts = '-map 0 -map -0:a:1 -c:v libx264 -s:v:0 640x480 -c:a:0 libfdk_aac -flags +qscale -global_quality 3 -afterburner 1 -ac:0 2 -c:s copy -crf 24';
    $hbret = `/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "${mfile}" -preset veryslow ${enc_opts} "${mediatitle}"`;
    }

Do I get into this block because I tried to convert a .mkv file instead of a .ts one?

Regards

RE: Automatic cleaning of recordings - Added by Mark Kirkpatrick about 11 years ago

Yes, That is what is happening. All my tvheadend are from an hdhomerun and in ts format. I did say they were not cleaned up :) .

That whole clause is never used in my case and is leftover from an older script that would take makemkv generated blueray copies and compress them.

I looked at it again and that is the case , also comscipt only works on original mpg so another reason I left it as TS. You can delete the entire if statement and just update the one below it to open whatever filetypes you use ( comment out comskip if not ts|mpg )

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