[mythtv-users] 2 hour shows not recording 2nd hour

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 13:50:30 UTC 2006


On 24/07/06, Mito Tranin - Lists <mito-lists at mitopia.net> wrote:
>
>  Michael T. Dean wrote:
>  On 07/23/06 22:56, Mito Tranin - Lists wrote:
>
>
>
>  Excuse me if this is an easy question, but I've searched google a bit
> and the archives and I can't seem to find the answer.
>
> When any of my shows, which are normally one hour long, has a two hour
> episode (usually two one hour episodes back to back, as a season finale
> or opener, etc) Myth will record the first hour, but not the second! At
> first I thought it was just because of sindication that they only showed
> the first hour for some reason, but then it happened again when I knew
> they showed both hours (I know because I actually watched it via a
> normal TV). I went to my Myth to delete it since I'd already seen it,
> and it had only recorded the first hour, not the second!
>
> Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
>
>
>  Are you setting start early/end late on the recording rule? Doing so
> will cause conflicts for back-to-back recordings.
>
> Mike
>
>  Not on this specific recording no, but I have to otherwise as on two of my
> channels that I record on regularly always start their shows about 1.5
> minutes early.  I have it set to 2 minutes early, and sometimes I still miss
> the first portions of the shows.  It is set to not do so however if there is
> another recording that needs to take place... which does work properly as
> sometimes the recordings do not have the early minutes, and those are in
> fact the 2nd ones in back-2-back recordings.
>
>  Thanks for the idea though!
>  Can anyone think of anything else?  I can't believe I'm the only one
> running into this...

What duplicate matching policy are you using for this series?

Nick
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