Setting storage per tuner

[lovingHDTV]

How can I setup Sage to only record to a certain drive on a per tuner basis? I thought I read that this could be done now.

I want to set my HD tuner to only record to the local drive as Sage has quality issues recording to my network storage.

thanks,

[Opus4]

From the v4.1.6 release notes:

1. Added propert for encoders forced_video_storage_path_prefix. If this is set then it will only write to video storage directories that being with the string this property is set to.

There may be a little discussion of it in that thread. Basically, you are supposed to just set it with the first few letters for the recording dir you want it to use.

- Andy

[lovingHDTV]

I tried the following and neither worked:

mmc/encoders/1062634441/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\DELL\D\SageTV


and

mmc/encoders/1062634441/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\DELL\\D\\SageTV

Here is the encoder I'm tryint to limit:
mmc/encoders/1062634441/video_capture_device_name=AVerTVHD A180 Video Capture

To test to see if it worked I watched liveTV on the tuner in question. It recorded to the wrong drive.

Any ideas?

[Opus4]

As far as I know, it should work with the double backslashes (\\\\), just like the seeker/video_storage property uses.

So... I guess your next step would be to file a bug report w/your logs.

- Andy

[jlindborg]

Yeah - I tried this as well (I'm running on beta 10) - tried several formats for the prefix string and it always records on the local Sage server regardless - I'll file a bug report here in a bit.

[Kirby]

A question about using this feature, do you have to add the recording directories inside Sage (Detailed setup, recording directories)? Or is the mmc/encoder line enough?

Say I have the absollute path to my recording directory as:

mmc/encoders/12346/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\E\\SageTV

Do I need to setup \\\\PC1\\E\\SageTV in the detailed setup, or would my encoder line be better as:

mmc/encoders/12346/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\E

I'm trying to get to a point where 4 HD tuners (2 being network encoders) are writing to the same machine (PC1) but each written to a different drive to spread the load out. From what I can tell, it sounds like in the detailed setup I would need something like:

\\\\PC1\\E\\SageTV
\\\\PC1\\F\\SageTV
\\\\PC1\\G\\SageTV
\\\\PC1\\H\\SageTV

And then lines in sage.props like:

mmc/encoders/12346/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\E
mmc/encoders/12347/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\F
mmc/encoders/12348/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\G
mmc/encoders/12349/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\PC1\\H

Do I have it right?

[Opus4]

Yes, you would have to add Video Recording Directories. The path prefix is meant to limit which dirs the tuner can use; it doesn't define new recording locations.

- Andy

[Kirby]

Ok thanks Andy. Is it preferred to just have the prefix just be that, a prefix, or use the absolute directory name, or doesnt it matter? just wondering if the prefix is absolute, would it match up faster, although I'm guessing its probably fractions of a second anyway. Guess I will just set it up like I posted above.

[Opus4]

As far as I know, it doesn't matter: the recording dirs are simply checked to see if the name of the location starts with the prefix. That's all I know about it.

- Andy

[antplugger]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone been able to crack the nut on this one I have 4 tuners and 3 disks - I would like split recording directory by tuner and assign to disk.

Setup looks like this
> detailed setup -> setup -> Recording Directory
//MediaServer/Recording-A
//MediaServer/Recording-B
//MediaServer/Recording-C

Physical Disks
//MediaServer/Recording-A = D:\Recording-A
//MediaServer/Recording-B = E:\Recording-B
//MediaServer/Recording-C = G:\Recording-C


In my Sage.properties I have tried
mmc/encoders/-1136531750/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=G\:\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/-2122796651/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=D\:\\Recording-A
mmc/encoders/1642691032/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=G\:\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/551195575/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=E\:\\Recording-B

and this

mmc/encoders/-1136531750/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/-2122796651/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-A
mmc/encoders/1642691032/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/551195575/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-B

Both types I get a "Network Error" when I try to tune the channel

Thanks for any help

[Kirby]

Hate to ask the obvious, but did you share those directories? and set them to be write-able, not just readable?

I used the lines like I posted above and it works fine.

Originally Posted by antplugger

In my Sage.properties I have tried
mmc/encoders/-1136531750/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=G\:\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/-2122796651/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=D\:\\Recording-A
mmc/encoders/1642691032/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=G\:\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/551195575/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=E\:\\Recording-B

Those above are incorrect.

Originally Posted by antplugger

mmc/encoders/-1136531750/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/-2122796651/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-A
mmc/encoders/1642691032/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-C
mmc/encoders/551195575/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\Mediaserver\\Recording-B

These are the proper way to do it.

I am not sure about your detailed setup entries though. Did you manually type those in, or did you browse to them and "select current directory" via the Sage UI? Specifically, the direction of the slashes has me puzzled. I cant recall which direction mine were in, but I didnt manually type them in, I browsed with the Sage UI to the network, then computer, then drive/directory and selected it.

[antplugger]

Thanks - I did enter these manually - Where in the UI do you enter these settings ? Sorry for being dumb but I cant seem to find where I can force which tuner to write to write to which directory

Cheers

[Kirby]

I only meant the recording directories via the UI, not the forced prefix.

On my Video Recording Dirs screen (Setup, detailed, general, video recording dirs) I have:

\\LIBRARY2\F\SAGETV

And then in the mmc/encoder line for forced prefix I have:

mmc/encoders/12347/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=\\\\LIBRARY2\\F

My concern was that you wrote your recording directories as:

Setup looks like this
> detailed setup -> setup -> Recording Directory
//MediaServer/Recording-A
//MediaServer/Recording-B
//MediaServer/Recording-C

Slashes are the wrong way there.. Was it a typo?

[antplugger]

Gotcha - It was a typo - I am using backslashes \\

I think I am going to try XP Disk striping - Might be a little less maint (Assuming I dont lose a disk

Cheers

[Kirby]

You mean XP volume spanning? Its not true striping, it just fills the space, and doesnt write to all drives like a stripe set would. I'm actually breaking my two 1.5TB spanned sets tonight because I dont trust them, and want to upgrade some drives. Good luck with it, you'll probably be ok, just realize that when you want to break the spanning set, it gets messy as you have to unload all data to other drives.