[mythtv] [PATCH] Extend recording time during recording

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:09:25AM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 11:27 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > This patch adds a feature requested from the user list which is
> > apparently also a TiVo feature.  While watching a recording in progress,
> > you can select a new OSD menu item to Extend the recording by 15, 30,
> > 45, or 60 minutes beyond the current end time.  Common usage is for
> > sporting events that will obviously go long while you are watching to
> > extend the end time to handle it.
> 
> Is this the best method to handle extending recording?  It's just increasing 
> the (optional) over-record value, which could get overridden if there was 
> another recording coming up..  Ideally, I think that the scheduler would have 
> to get involved, to deal with that properly.

Concur: since overrecord is overridable by *everything* (correct, no?)
it's not the proper way to manage this, as desirable as the function is
-- particularly in manual record mode.

Cheers,
-- jra
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