[mythtv-users] What's the correct way to handle overlapping showtimes?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 28 07:21:49 UTC 2006


On 01/27/2006 09:36 PM, ffrr wrote:
> I only have on tuner, and there are two shows that overl;ap slightly, 
> that I want to record.  The first ends 5 minutes after the beginning of 
> the second show (on a nother channel of course).
>
> When I scheduled the second show, it did not want to record because the 
> default priority, 0 , was less than the priority assigned to the first 
> show (which had been auto-scheduled because I watch it all the time).  
> So, I increased the priority of the second show, thinking that I'd just 
> miss the end of the first show, but no, the first show then went red (in 
> Mythweb).  I assumed this meant it would not record at all.
>
> So, I then set the second show to start early by -5 minutes (that's 
> negative 5) and this worked, allowing both shows to record, and missing 
> the first 5 minutes of the second show.
>
> Is there a better way to handle this, and/or did I go wrong somewhere?
>   
Nope.  You did it exactly right.  The only better way is to get another 
capture card (or two or three or ...).

Mike


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