Where are temporary recordings stored?

[peterh337]

If you pause a broadcast programme, the data is obviously written to a file. Can these files be seen anywhere? Presumably there is a cron job which cleans them up, or they are deleted whenever the viewer catches up with the broadcast.

Just curious...

 

[TimK2015]

I think as soon as the HDR-Fox T2 starts up it begins recording the currently tuned channel to a buffer file called 0.ts. Once the buffer is full it wraps around i.e. it loses the beginning of the buffer. I think the buffer on the the T2 is 2 hours. If you change channels then the buffer file starts again. When you pause the programme the buffer carries on recording. Don't know if the file is deleted when the PVR shuts down - I guess that it just starts again when switched back on.

 

[Black Hole]

No not deleted, and it resides in its own HDD partition. The curious can do a forum search for discussions about the "TSR buffer" (click).

 

[prpr]

If you change channels then the buffer file starts again.

The buffer starts again, but the file doesn't. The old data, inaccessable via normal means, can be accessed with the nicesplice-magic-folders package.

it resides in its own HDD partition

No it doesn't. It's on partition 2 with all the other recordings, although it is in a separate directory. On the HD there is only one partition, and again it's in a separate (hidden) directory.

 

[Black Hole]

No it doesn't. It's on partition 2

Is it? Oh. Failing memory, it seems obvious to put it elsewhere.

 

[Black Hole]

For the record:

HDRFOX4# ls hd1                                                                           
dvbepg  epg.db  lost+found                                                               
HDRFOX4# ls hd2                                                                           
My Music  My Photo  My Video  Tsr  dms_cds.db  lost+found  mod  thumbnail  virtual_disk   
HDRFOX4# ls hd3                                                                           
Streamer_down_file  fix-disk.0.log  fix-disk.2.log  lost+found                           
cookie.txt          fix-disk.1.log  fix-disk.3.log  maintenance.boot.log                 
HDRFOX4# ls hd4                                                                           
HDRFOX4# ls hd2/Tsr                                                                       
0.nts  0.ts

Note that "mod", "thumbnail"(?), "virtual_disk" and anything ".log" has been added by the CF.

 

[prpr]

it seems obvious to put it elsewhere.

Why? What difference would it make? It's all on the same disk.

"thumbnail"(?)

That's created by the standard Humax binary.