[mythtv-users] Can I stop the truncation of pre-roll/post-roll

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:07:14PM +0100, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
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>>This one has been discussed to death. Search the mailing list.
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>I did!  I found some stuff but nothing really useful.  Do you have a
>link?
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>>Short answer: you are mis-using. For the behaviour you want, you need to 
>>use the start early / end late settings, which actually change the 
>>scheduler times. The pre- ad post-roll are for a different purpose (like 
>>getting the backend running in time when using a lan wake-up, allowing 
>>for long tuner times, things like that).
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>Just to make sure we are talking about the same things.
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>I'm talking about the settings in mythfrontend in TV Settings =>
>General labelled
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>  Time to record before start of show (in seconds)
>  Time to record past end of show (in seconds)
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Correct, and these have no impact on the scheduler

>Which appear to correspond to
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>mysql> select * from settings where data in ("240", "420");
>+----------------+------+----------+
>| value          | data | hostname |
>+----------------+------+----------+
>| RecordPreRoll  | 240  | NULL     |
>| RecordOverTime | 420  | NULL     |
>+----------------+------+----------+
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>These seem to be the only global options for this or have I missed
>something?
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>The other alternative seems to be the per recording schedule option
>labelled thus in mythfrontend
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>  Start recording on time / x minutes early / late
>  End recording on time / x minutes early / late
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Yup, these *do* have effect on the scheduler, and have no global default 
(at least not pre 0.19)
I still have to check in 0.19 to see whether a global setting has been 
introduced.

>Which is the ones you are referring to I think?
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>Is there somewhere to set the default values of these so I don't have
>to adjust them for every new recording schedule?
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I am setting them for each new recording schedule....

>Thanks for your help
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>Nick
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