[mythtv-users] question about pre/post extra recording time...

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 05 September 2003 03:15 am, Chris Petersen wrote:
> It's been awhile since I poked around in myth's settings, and I recently
> noticed the addition of a "record x seconds before..." option.  Awesome
> addition.  However, since my wife has me record the almost-daily
> back-to-back showing of Whose Line on ABC Fam, and I've noticed a lot of
> overlap between them (and my recordings being slightly under 30 minutes,
> despite having pre/post of >= 60 seconds apiece), I'm wondering how
> these settings affect back-to-back recordings?  Do they just cancel each
> other out, or is one prioritized over the other? (one would hope that
> they just cancel each other out - I can't tell because abc fam's clock
> runs a bit late).

Each of the settings only gets applied if there's nothing else wanting to be 
recorded at the time, so, yeah, they cancel out.

> Anyway, I'm also curious if it's possible to do both pre- and post-
> recording for back-to-back shows if they're on the same channel (since
> there would be little/no need to rebuffer things) - maybe using
> something like mythtranscode to stitch a few minutes here and there onto
> the beginning/end of one show or another.  No biggie, just thought I'd
> mention it as a cool feature.

Not possible currently, though it's certainly not impossible to do.

Isaac