V+ guessing amount of space left
25-04-2008, 12:03
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V+ guessing amount of space left
I only noticed this yesterday. For a while now I have been filling up my hard drive with Doctor Who and Torchwood HD, whilst copying some stuff off to DVD and deleting it.
After the weekend I had an estimated 14 hours left. Yesterday I had 22. I recorded a programme, watched, and deleted it and it still stayed the same.
Has the V+ been lying to me all along, or is it just guessing? Or am I going to view some recordings soon and be disappointed?
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25-04-2008, 12:05
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
If you reboot the box ive found it resets the count and gets it more accurate
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25-04-2008, 14:58
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
Of course the amount of time remaining depends on the programs you record - HD needs about 3x the space, for example, iirc.
Maybe someone knowledgable can explain how the estimate works.
I can only guess - but I suspect that it looks at the profile of the material you have to estimate how much more would fit on.
The assumption being that you will continue to record material of SD and HD in the same proportion. I wonder if it is this clever?
For example, if it's half full of HD material of a total length of Xhrs - then it will estimate that you have Xhrs remaining. Whereas if it were half full of 3X hrs of SD material, it would estimate that you have 3X hrs remaining.
And therefore, if it were half SD and half HD, then it would estimate 2.5Xhors remaining.
Makes sense?
Someone shoot me down!!!
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25-04-2008, 19:27
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
The thing is the amount of free space increased without me doing anything, unless there are some hard drive pixies out there giving out extra space.
I will try a reboot sometime; apart from this the box is behaving itself and 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
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25-04-2008, 19:36
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
Odd. Granted.
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26-04-2008, 15:14
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
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..I suspect that it looks at the profile of the material you have to estimate how much more would fit on. The assumption being that you will continue to record material of SD and HD in the same proportion. I wonder if it is this clever?
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not a good algorythmn - with only 80 hours (SD) & 25 ish in HD - a mere fluxuation of even half-hour of HD would render it useless as any sort of guide
you would need something like 800 hour recording space to make this calculation anything like 'representative'
recording time is obviously based on SD recording and derived loosely from free drive space
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Bang! 
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26-04-2008, 18:44
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
What do you suggest then?
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26-04-2008, 20:53
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
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What do you suggest then?
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I suggest they stick with what they are currently using
free drive space = Std hours
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26-04-2008, 21:35
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
Hmmm. Okay!
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28-04-2008, 12:01
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
I think I have found out where the space has come from. A couple of episodes from around the middle of the second series of Torchwood were reporting failed. D'oh!
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28-04-2008, 17:23
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
oh well. At least you understand it.
...and Torchwood is pretty dire - so it could have been worse
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28-04-2008, 19:14
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Re: V+ guessing amount of space left
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oh well. At least you understand it.
...and Torchwood is pretty dire - so it could have been worse
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I could have lost an episode of Doctor Who. Now that would make me think about sending the V+ back and switching to $ky. 
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