Windows 7 media center tv recording location

For this reason, I prefer to leave the DVRDirectory value the default value and just create a symbolic link to my custom path. It all depends on your preference. Would you rather Live TV work or not work if the target folder is invalid? If you would rather prevent thrashing on your SSD at all costs then a symlink. I would personally use a NTFS junction over a symlink for this particular use case.

With symlinks if you use parent path reference.. I use this option and it works perfectly. All Good. That is unfortunate. My bigger concern is disk write bandwidth when writing four HD Mpeg2 streams at the same time. I had hoped to be able to write two streams to one disk and two to the other disk, to balance the write throughput.

With this solution, if four tuners all start writing at pm, all of the streams will be written to one drive. WMC is actually pretty smart with how it writes to the disk in the first place. You can also format with a larger cluster size to provide a little bit more oomph.

It worked just fine. You can still get there just by copying and pasting one of the above locations into Explorer's address bar. Or you can enable yourself to view hidden files. Select "Show hidden files, folders, and drives. The two most recent files should have the live stream from the last two channels you visited. COPY these files to some other folder. If there are more than two files, you can copy all of them; but I think the others won't be useable.

Change the extension to dvr-ms. I think that's what these files are. Changing the extension to mpg also works. You can also get rid of the. So the new file can be called:. The file will probably have problems such as incorrectly reporting how long it is.

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Sengupta's post on September 14, By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster. How satisfied are you with this reply? To limit the amount of hard disk space that Media Center can use for recorded shows, change the Maximum TV limit setting to a lower number. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.

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