[mythtv] Scheduling conflict when overrecord used.

[Steven Ellis]

Robin Gilks wrote:
> I have a vague recollection of a patch (or maybe the discussion of one)
> that would ease the restrictions on consecutive recordings that would
> otherwise conflict.
>
> The situation I've just had is that I had 2 consecutive recordings
> scheduled with the 1st at a higher priority that the second. They were on
> different channels. I have a global +3 minutes overrecord set.
>
> What I would have liked to have seen is that the second recording start 3
> minutes late rather than be missed completely.
>
> In this case, when I scheduled the 2nd program in MythWeb, I noticed the
> conflict and set both programs to record manually but the 2nd still got
> missed due to the preexisting higher priority of the 1st.
>
> Is there a work around this, a bug in MythWeb, an existing patch to start
> the 2nd late or anything else that would avoid this in future?
>
> Cheers
>
>   
What i've done is edit the schedule for the second recording to start 3
minutes late.

My normal setting for myPVR is start 90 seconds early and end 5 minutes
late for all recordings.

Steve

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