Emby Live TV pause buffer filled up C: drive

[Mbedford 7]

Hi, The Emby Live TV pause buffer found at:

          C:\Users\Public\Videos\Pause Buffer

is a whopping 21Gb and and just filed up my C:\ drive

Obviously Windows is not NOT happy being out of space now.

I cant see in Emby server configure where to change this path to another drive?

Also can I make this 'Pause buffer' smaller? seems awe fully large for a pause buffer?

Thanks for the support.

[PenkethBoy 2066]

thats for Wintv not emby - hauppauge tuner app

but gets used as emby talks to wintv etc

usually a reboot of emby will clear the buffer

also why does 21GB cause your pc problems?

Edited September 6, 2020 by PenkethBoy

[Mbedford 7]

"usually a reboot of emby will clear the buffer" < Emby server, Hauppage WinTV and Emby theater are all on the same media center, it gets rebooted (shutdown) every evening at 11pm automatically and started up each morning. The wintv 10 buffer folder doesn't get cleaned.

"also why does 21GB cause your pc problems?" < My Media centers hardware setup is a small fast SSD for the system (C:\) drive and several large HDD's for all the media files.

I just found the config in WinTV 10, and changed recording buffer to point to another bigger HDD.

Seems strange why this live TV buffer needs to be so big though.

[Happy2Play 9441]

More discussion found here.  Doesn't look like Emby really controls the pause buffer of WinTV at least from a restart standpoint.

 

[Mbedford 7]

Yes I see. thanks for pointing out that thread.

No update since Feb.

@Luke is your Emby team still trying to fix this issue?

[Luke 40079]

We are looking into improving it. Thanks for reporting.