frontend stores snapshots and never deletes them

[mythtv@…]

I am really starting to get hacked off with MythTV. There appears to be little or no regression testing and little or no actual testing.

The next piece of crap I have found is that mythfrontend stores snapshots of tv in png format in ~/.mythtv/cache/themecache/MythCenter-wide.2560.1440 & ~/.mythtv/cache/remotecache AND NEVER DELETES THEM. This results in disk space being needlessly used up.

These should NEVER be created as the frontend has no notion of when the backend deletes the recordings.

To all developers, start getting a grip and act professional. The number of screw ups are no longer acceptable.

I suggest mythtv is promoted to v1 and like the Linux kernel, no patches should break any part of it.

[Karl Egly]

Sadly it appears as if we are lacking the developer resources to look into this issue in time for the milestone. Resetting the milestone back to the default.

[David Hampton <mythtv@…>]

I committed fixes at ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/148 to rearrange the placement of cached files and to implement aging.

[Peter Bennett]

This will be very helpful for Raspberry Pi users, since the "disk space" on an SD card is very limited. I have experienced an SD card run out of space for this reason, the .mythtv directory can grow to gigabytes in size.

[David Hampton <mythtv@…>]

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