Playing and deleting your recordings Print

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Settings → Recordings lists everything you have recorded, with the size of each file, a Play button and a Delete button.

Play opens the file in the app's own player, straight from the device. No connection to your provider is involved, so a recording plays even with the internet off, and it does not use one of your permitted streams.

Choosing where they are kept

A television box has room for about an evening of television, so the same screen lets you pick which volume recordings go to. Every drive the app is allowed to write to is listed with its free space beside it — a USB stick in a hub is the usual answer. Look for a stick or card rebuilds the list for one you have just plugged in.

Pull a drive out and it stops being offered; a recording then goes to the device rather than failing. A gigabyte is always left free, because a box filled to the last byte stops working altogether — recording stops while there is still room and tells you why.

If you are using a USB stick, format it as exFAT. A stick formatted as FAT32 cannot hold a single file bigger than 4 GB — roughly two hours — so a long recording stops part way through for no reason you can see.

Where the files are

Recordings live in the app's own storage area, which is why the app never asks for permission to your photos or documents. Live channels are saved as .ts files, which any desktop video player opens if you copy them off.

Uninstalling the app deletes its storage area, and your recordings with it. Copy anything you want to keep to a computer first.


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