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

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Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
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>>Is it possible to stop the truncation of pre-roll/post-roll?
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>Global pre/post roll is soft and not meant to cover programming slides 
>that networks do.  It is designed to account for slight delays in 
>starting up recorders, etc.
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>The per-program pre/post roll is hard and will cause the scheduler to 
>always record it.  Use this if you want to guarantee that you get the 
>roll, but be warned, it will bump other programs as conflicts if this 
>happens.  In that case, get yourself enough tuners to handle all the 
>schedules you have.
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>Kevin
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Can I check some terminology here? Is the 'per-program pre/post roll' 
you refer to, the same thing as 'start early / end late settings' that 
Rudy was talking about earlier? (copy of what he said below...)

Short answer: you are mis-using. For the behaviour you want, you need to 
use the start early / end late settings, which actually change the 
scheduler times. The pre- ad post-roll are for a different purpose (like 
getting the backend running in time when using a lan wake-up, allowing 
for long tuner times, things like that).