[mythtv-users] recording overrides

[Rock R. Allard III]

This might be an easy answer, but is your clock up to date.  MythTV
uses this as to when to start and stop.


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:58:04 -0400, Bill Oberman <oberman at bodymedia.com> wrote:
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> I don't use the advanced features of recording very often, but I had
> troubles last night, and I want to make sure I'm using it correctly.  I
> wanted to record Sex and the City on TBS, and set up channel recording.  The
> episodes are listed back-to-back, at 9:00 and 9:30, and are listed as being
> 30 minutes, but in reality seem to be slightly more… like 33 minutes.  I
> have global early start/late end settings of 2 minutes, and the first week
> lost the very end of the second episode.  I then tried to add an "end late"
> to this program of 5 minutes.  The second week, it worked, but bounced
> between tuners (I have two), and double recorded the end of first/start of
> second episode.  I realized my mistake, which was to apply the extra 5
> minutes to all episodes, versus just the second.  I put the record options
> back to no extra end.  Then last night, I went to the 9:30 episodes, and
> added a "recording override" of end +5 minutes.  But, that didn't work at
> all… it only recorded the standard global extra 2 minutes, but not 5.  Up
> till now everything made sense to me… why didn't it record the 9:30 show 5
> minutes longer? 
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> I think I now know how to fix it "right".  Delete the channel schedule, and
> add two timeslot ones.  Set the 9:30 slot to have extra end, and everything
> should work out. 
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> Thanks, 
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> william 
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