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

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:08:43PM +0100, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> >  Time to record before start of show (in seconds)
> >  Time to record past end of show (in seconds)
> Correct, and these have no impact on the scheduler

Noted.

> >The other alternative seems to be the per recording schedule option
> >labelled thus in mythfrontend
> >
> >  Start recording on time / x minutes early / late
> >  End recording on time / x minutes early / late
> >  
> >
> 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.

I didn't find one in mythfrontend.  There might be some without a UI I
don't know!

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

I've had a play with those settings now, and yes they do exactly what
I want.

I don't see a default setting for these in 0.19 which would be
nice, however a script to run

  update record set startoffset=5, endoffset=5;

Isn't hard either!

Thanks for your help
-- 
Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick