Any settings the Live TV Buffer?

[russr1123]

Aside from controlling which directory live tv streams are stored in, are there any other settings we can control? I would love to be able to:
1) Control how big (file size) or how long (minutes), the live buffer can be.
2) Turn live buffer off (very useful for analog composite and s-video capturing where live buffer doesn't make sense).
3) Control how often the files in this directory are emptied. This obviously is easily done myself with a scheduled task, but the top two ones have no workaround.

Thanks

[sub]

Aside from controlling which directory live tv streams are stored in, are there any other settings we can control? I would love to be able to:
1) Control how big (file size) or how long (minutes), the live buffer can be.

There is a registry setting that can be tweaked to ajust the number of minutes stored in the live tv buffer.

2) Turn live buffer off (very useful for analog composite and s-video capturing where live buffer doesn't make sense).

No.

3) Control how often the files in this directory are emptied. This obviously is easily done myself with a scheduled task, but the top two ones have no workaround.

Its supposed to remove the files pretty much immediately when they're no longer required. In the current release I've seen a few comments from people indicating they're having files left behind. Its probably some recently introduced bug. I haven't looked into it yet.

[russr1123]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Can you please tell me what the registry key/location is?

[sub]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\npvr\SlipSeconds or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\npvr\SlipSeconds on 64bit Windows

[russr1123]

Thanks, I will try it out.

[mvallevand]

Its supposed to remove the files pretty much immediately when they're no longer required. In the current release I've seen a few comments from people indicating they're having files left behind. Its probably some recently introduced bug. I haven't looked into it yet.

For clients including the PC, NMT and MVP this is not new, it has been a problem since the beginning. For the NMT the "bug" is the attempts to delete the file by NPVR and by the webserver occurs before the recording graph has closed.

Martin

[sub]

There may have been some scenarios where files have been left behind before (particularly with the NMT, which I dont test much test days), but there seems to be something new in this release which makes it more likely to happen.

[shaunpatrick77]

Can anyone clarify if this is a reg key we have to manually add? It wasn't there on my Vista 32 installation, unless its moved or something.

Thanks!

[sub]

From memory it's not there by default. If not defined in the registry then it defaults to 3600.