Ok, I did some debugging.
First of all, I noticed something weird that perhaps is not even related to this problem. In vdr.c there is a check:
if ((Now - LastInteract) > ACTIVITYTIMEOUT
if softhhddevice is detached or suspended, "Now - LastInteract" is always zero, and vdr can never enter housekeeping tasks. This must be a bug in softhddevice?
But, with softhddevice attached, housekeeping starts after 60 seconds. However, now with the added debug, I could not reproduce the original problem. :) VDR always deletes my recordings nicely. But now I have the debug enabled, in case it happens again.
2018-01-18 12:26 GMT+02:00 Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@tvdr.de:
On 18.01.2018 08:54, Teemu Suikki wrote:
Ok, it might be the same thing.
I added some debug as Klaus suggested. After restart, vdr instantly deleted a few directories.. So at least it works sometimes. :)
Perhaps the cleanup fails if Plex or another vdr is currently accessing the same files? Maybe vdr then thinks it has deleted them, and does not try again.
In cRemoveDeletedRecordingsThread::Action() VDR tries to get a lock on the video directory. If this fails, it can't remove deleted recordings.
Please add some debug output to this function, to see whether it is called and whether it gets the lock. If it doesn't get the lock while Plex is running, try without Plex.
Klaus
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