diff --git a/docs/docs/configuration/record.md b/docs/docs/configuration/record.md index b879a228e..9db5ddd50 100644 --- a/docs/docs/configuration/record.md +++ b/docs/docs/configuration/record.md @@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ id: record title: Recording --- -Recordings can be enabled and are stored at `/media/frigate/recordings`. The folder structure for the recordings is `YYYY-MM/DD/HH//MM.SS.mp4`. These recordings are written directly from your camera stream without re-encoding. Each camera supports a configurable retention policy in the config. Frigate chooses the largest matching retention value between the recording retention and the event retention when determining if a recording should be removed. +Recordings can be enabled and are stored at `/media/frigate/recordings`. The folder structure for the recordings is `YYYY-MM-DD/HH//MM.SS.mp4`. These recordings are written directly from your camera stream without re-encoding. Each camera supports a configurable retention policy in the config. Frigate chooses the largest matching retention value between the recording retention and the event retention when determining if a recording should be removed. -H265 recordings can be viewed in Edge and Safari only. All other browsers require recordings to be encoded with H264. +New recording segments are written from the camera stream to cache, they are only moved to disk if they match the setup recording retention policy. + +H265 recordings can be viewed in Chrome 108+, Edge and Safari only. All other browsers require recordings to be encoded with H264. ## Will Frigate delete old recordings if my storage runs out?