[mythtv] More scheduling scheduler

[Martin Ebourne]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:26:26 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/26/2006 07:09 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>> I do wonder what all these issues are that people are likely to assume
>> will be resolved with softpadding. The only problem I can see it solves
>> is for channels with unreliable timing, or that sometimes run a couple
>> of minutes late, and for this it works very well.
> 
> Read through all the posts on the -users list where people say, "my 
> global padding isn't being applied for back-to-back shows" to see.

Exactly!

And that is precisely what soft padding fixes very nicely. There's lots
of people on the users list that already expect pre/post roll to do just
this. It is for exactly this reason I run the softpadding myself. 

However, the real problem being solved is unreliable channel timing. If
that wasn't an issue noone would care about any kind of padding, hence
my reply to David's comment.

Cheers,

Martin.