[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this(overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?
Brad Templeton
brad+myth at templetons.com
Mon Jul 31 02:33:19 UTC 2006
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:25:13PM -0500, William Powers wrote:
> On the other hand, if I don't overlap the recordings, I invariably lose
> the beginning or the end of one of the programs, and I do mean lose,
> given the time it takes my hardware encoders to recycle. So, at
> present, Myth won't let me record adjacent programs of equal priority on
> the same channel on my highest quality encoder. Thus, invariably, some
> of the programs I most care about end up recorded on lower priority
> encoders with interference artifacts.
Well, you could increase the system's soft padding, which is global
for all recordings. Or am I missing something about what you call
the recycle time? I have a pvr-250, and when I do adjacent shows,
I miss at most a couple of seconds. (Not that zero would not be
nice.)
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