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[snake007uk]

Hi,

I am having issues with WebTV, before I could opena stream in windows media player by simply going to the going tot he bouquet list and clicking on the small TV icon next to the channel. This does not work. Alternatively I could use Internet Explorer and open in a web browser, this also does not work I cant even open m3u stream file using VLC?!?!

Second problem. So I use the auto timer to record some TV series. However I want to auto delete anything older then 2 days, because ive probably seen it else where and dont need it anymore. However the recording application just keeps stacking up

Help!

Thanks

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[hemispherical1]

No E2 here, but 2nd problem...

Try setting up a cron job running something like:

find /path/to/recordings -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

I don't know where E2 keeps the recordings, replace /path/to/recordings with the actual location. Also note if that location contains any sub directories, I believe they too will be "cleaned out".

From find's man page:

-mtime n File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last modified, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -mtime +1, a file has to have been modified at least two days ago.


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hemi

Ps. Might as well try it from the command line before trying it from cron to make sure the DB supports all the command switches...

[nfnovice]

nice one hemi

[MiLo]

...I cant even open m3u stream file using VLC

That's your problem. Don't blame the box.

I suggest re-installing VLC, and make sure that it is set to handle .m3u files when you double-click them in explorer. I think you can set this in one of the VLC option screens, look for "file extensions" or something like that.

[snake007uk]

I am not blaming the box , I am just curious, how comes it starts working when I reboot the box?

so Windows Media player, VLC and even the web broswer work if I reboot the box, but if I dont watch the stream for a few days or open it after I closed a previous session down I get this issue?

hemi thanks for the tip

[snake007uk]

Hi,

I am having issues with WebTV, before I could opena stream in windows media player by simply going to the going tot he bouquet list and clicking on the small TV icon next to the channel. This does not work. Alternatively I could use Internet Explorer and open in a web browser, this also does not work I cant even open m3u stream file using VLC?!?!

Second problem. So I use the auto timer to record some TV series. However I want to auto delete anything older then 2 days, because ive probably seen it else where and dont need it anymore. However the recording application just keeps stacking up

Help!

Thanks

edit: [prefix] added

[hemispherical1]

No E2 here, but 2nd problem...

Try setting up a cron job running something like:

find /path/to/recordings -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

I don't know where E2 keeps the recordings, replace /path/to/recordings with the actual location. Also note if that location contains any sub directories, I believe they too will be "cleaned out".

From find's man page:

-mtime n File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last modified, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -mtime +1, a file has to have been modified at least two days ago.


--
hemi

Ps. Might as well try it from the command line before trying it from cron to make sure the DB supports all the command switches...

[nfnovice]

nice one hemi

[MiLo]

...I cant even open m3u stream file using VLC

That's your problem. Don't blame the box.

I suggest re-installing VLC, and make sure that it is set to handle .m3u files when you double-click them in explorer. I think you can set this in one of the VLC option screens, look for "file extensions" or something like that.

[snake007uk]

I am not blaming the box , I am just curious, how comes it starts working when I reboot the box?

so Windows Media player, VLC and even the web broswer work if I reboot the box, but if I dont watch the stream for a few days or open it after I closed a previous session down I get this issue?

hemi thanks for the tip

[snake007uk]

Still no luck with the streaming? any guesses as to why it just stops working?

[snake007uk]

Guys I still have not worked out why the box wont stream, any other tips?