Clients leaving live TV temp files

[SickBoy]

I've had a recurring issue of NPVR not cleaning up temporary files when streaming to client - I've tested it out and determined that it's definitely happening only when streaming to the client and not when watching on the server itself.

Code:

C:\tv_temp>dir
Volume in drive C is Windows 7
Volume Serial Number is D064-2BFD

Directory of C:\tv_temp

12/29/2012  09:36 AM    <DIR>          .
12/29/2012  09:36 AM    <DIR>          ..
12/29/2012  09:25 AM       703,484,720 live-KARE-HD-5029-7.ts
12/29/2012  09:31 AM       730,232,232 live-KARE-HD-5029-8.ts
12/29/2012  09:36 AM       447,161,384 live-KARE-HD-5029-9.ts
               3 File(s)  1,880,878,336 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  208,577,212,416 bytes free

C:\tv_temp>

Most of the temp files left show up in Windows Explorer as being 6 minutes and 40 seconds in length, and this issue seems to occur only with a subset of channels coming from my HDHR devices. It's not really an issue, per se, except for a couple of times when my C: drive has entirely filled, causing the server to hang. I've written a script to stop the recording service, delete the live-*.ts files in the temp dir and restart the service, every day at 2:05 AM, but this is somewhat of a hackish solution and of course disrupts any live TV watching or recording during that time.

Logs attached.

[sub]

Do you have the latest patches installed from the sticky patch thread? I seem to remember a patch that looked at files being left behind.

[SickBoy]

Pretty sure that I don't, I don't recall patching anything (just installing the release). I'll give it a shot.

[lukeshow]

SickBoy... did you ever find a fix for this? I've DL'd the newest NextPvr but I'm having the same issue as you, with NextPVR leaving files in the temp folder when I try to watch anything through XBMC. Would be nice to have them cleaned up automatically.

[jpoveda]

+1

[johnsonx42]

this is a known issue with NPVR and XBMC. I imagine sub will investigate a fix for the next release.

For now, I suggest a PostUpdateEPG.bat to delete them each night:

Code:

del c:\livetv\*.ts /q

Obviously you'll adjust that for wherever your live tv files are stored.