[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this (overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?

George Nychis gnychis at cmu.edu
Wed Jul 26 20:29:56 UTC 2006



Paul Wheeler wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Daniel Walton <dwalton at cisco.com> wrote:
>> Let's say you have one capture card just to keep the example simple.  You have
>> two shows you want to record that come on back to back on the same channel and
>> you want to record an extra minute at the beginning and end of each show:
>>
>> Show 1 - 4:59-5:31 (originally 5:00-5:30)
>> Show 2 - 5:29-6:01 (originally 5:30-6:00)
>>
>> At 5:29 why couldn't myth start writing the recorded content to the show 2 file
>> in addition to writing it to the show 1 file?  It only has to write to two files
>> at once for the next two minutes and that would resolve the conflict.  It seems
>> like that would be easier than trying to keep just one copy of the 5:29-5:31
>> content that you magically play as a part of Show 1 and Show 2.
> I presume this isnt possible within the current framework(without
> major rewrite) otherwise a very nice idea. Any views on devs on this
> one?
> 
> Paul
> 

This was my original thought as to why it might be implemented, the
video is taken from a single input and written to a file, i assumed two
concurrent writes was not a big issue.

- George


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