Live TV buffering in Media Player filling up SSD?

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   I have a HTPC with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DUAL 2-Tuner ATSC DLNA/UPnP Compatible Streaming Media Player, HDHR4-2US. This is a network tuner that can stream live tv over the network to multiple computers. It is supposed to work with
Windows Media Center set up as a dual-tuner or in Window Media Player via DLNA playback. I also have a Hauppauge single tuner installed in my HTPC and it is more sensitive (stronger signal) so I record most everything using that in Windows Media Center.
I have not installed the SiliconDust tuner in Media Center because then I can not control which tuner will record a particular program. I like to watch live tv in Media Player when the Hauppauge internal tuner is recording something else but have just
discovered that the 120 GB SSD with my operating system has suddenly filled up to within 8 GBs of capacity. When I select a channel to watch in Media Player via DNLA the PC shows it is buffering for a few minutes then the program will start playing with
no problems.   This same problem happened on the SSD in my NUC PC. I can not find anything else that could be filling up both SSD's and the problem just became noticeable when I started using DLNA for live streaming.
   Is it possible that Windows Media Player is acting like it is recording the live streams and saving the programs somewhere where I can't tell. In both PC's I have separate HDs for recorded TV and in Media Center have selected the other drives
for recorded tv so I won't fill up the SSD's.
   On the NUC PC I have already had to re-install Windows 7 O.S. because the 240 GB SSD had filled to within 10 GBs of capacity in a couple of weeks after starting to watch shows via DLNA in Media Player.   I couldn't find the Recorded
TV folder in the C: drive to see if there are any shows recorded there. I'm down to only 8 GBs left on the O.S. SSD in my HTPC now and will probably have to re-install Windows soon in that too. I hate to give up on watching TV with Media
Player because then I wouldn't be able to record and watch tv at the same time. My antenna signal is too weak to use a dual internal tv tuner even with a signal amplifier in line. Anyone with any helpful ideas?

Hi Tim De Baets:
Thanks for your response but I think I have solved the problem with Media Player live tv buffering filling up the SSD. Since I installed the Homerun tuner, SiliconDust came out with a new software download and after uninstalling
the original software and installing the latest version there seems to be a fix for my problem. Before, when I clicked on a channel from the list of channels in "All TV" the computer would start buffering for varying lengths
of time before the show would start running. Now the channels appear in "Playlist" on the right side of the Media Player window and upon clicking on ANY channel the live broadcast starts running immediately with no buffering prior to the start.
I haven't see any change in the size of the C: drive since then after a week of frequent use.
I am hesitant to install an unknown utility such as you mentioned when there is a likelihood that it won't be able to find anything useful anyway since there is no "large buffering file" to find now. I will keep the information
you provided at hand in case the buffering problem starts again.

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