[mythtv-users] pre and post record?

Steve s019 at krans.org
Tue Sep 9 15:01:20 EDT 2003


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> I've been having some trouble lately with my recordings having their
> beginnings getting cut off because the stations start broadcasting
> early, so I decided to bump up my pre-record (and post-record, just in
> case) to 120 seconds.  I just checked a recording that recently finished
> - nothing set to record before or after, and the hour-long show is
> 59:13.  I managed to get the whole show (luckily), but I would not have
> if my clock was a second different (thankfully, this channel seems to be
> aligned with my preferred ntp server).
> 
> Anyway, I'm wondering how an hour-long show wouls get recorded at under
> 60 minutes, ESPECIALLY since I told it to record 2 minutes extra before
> and after the show...  I've checked many of my past recordings (back
> when I only pre/post recorded 60 seconds, and they're ALL about 45
> seconds shy of either 30 or 60 minutes, with no sign of the pre/post
> record ever happening....
> 
> Is there something I need to enable besides just setting the pre/post
> values in the setup?
> 
> using cvs from a few days ago.
> 

Regarding the pre/post record settings, I just started using post-record at
60 seconds and noted that it doesn't take effect until the mythbackend is
restarted.


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