[mythtv-users] Question about Ticket #331 or recording late.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/14/05 03:37, Adam Egger wrote:

>Hi,
>I didn't want to spam mythtv's trac. I just have a question regarding
>"Ticket #331: record two transmissions which are one behind another on
>the same chanel".
>  
>
It's important that you understand the difference between (and purpose 
of) global pre-/post-roll and per-recording start-early/end-late 
settings.  No one explains it better than Bruce Markey:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/56603#56603

(Please read the whole post--if you base decisions only on the 
information I'm providing below, you'll probably still have problems 
setting your schedules appropriately because I'm not giving the whole 
story; Bruce is.)

>I've set the global record earlier setting to 120 seconds (2 minutes)
>and record late to 300 seconds (5 minutes) (why does this setting take
>seconds? Everywhere else minutes are used for all start earlier/late
>settings).
>
Because of the purpose of global pre-/post-roll--to get the tuner card 
started/stopped, which doesn't (usually?) require more than a few seconds.

>Now I'd like to set the end time of one scheduled recording to 0
>minutes. Does the per schedule setting work additionally to the global
>one? Do I have to provide -5 minutes for this recording now
>(300seconds - 5minutes = 0 minutes).
>  
>
Better idea would be to set your global pre-roll appropriately.  Your 
approach would work (plus/minus a few seconds), but is a fragile solution...

>Btw, will the global setting also be overridden when the tuner is
>going to switch to another channel when there are scheduled
>block-on-block recodings on two *different* channels?
>  
>
Yes, because the tuner is already started, so it doesn't need any 
"start-up time."

Mike