[mythtv-users] Why does mythtv decide to postpone a recording?

Peter Bowyer peter at bowyer.org
Mon Apr 16 07:41:44 UTC 2007


On 16/04/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/07, Justin <jd2666+mythtvlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've noticed that same thing with Grey's Anatomy.
> > The problem for me is that Grey's Anatomy runs from 9:00 to 10:01 so the
> > scheduler has Grey's Anatomy take up the time slots for 9:00 and 10:00.
> > That only ways I've found to workaround this problem are:
> > 1. Watch a later showing the next day
> > 2. Remove the last minute from Grey's Anatomy
> > 3. Remove the first minute of a 10:00 show
> > 4. Buy a third tuner
> > 5. Convince ABC to air the show in a normal time slot
> > So far I've done ways 1 and 2.
>
> I've been noticing similar issues with some UK channels - some
> channels start 1 minute before the hour/half hour timeslot and require
> suitable recording schedule adjustments, and others (I've experienced
> CH4 doing this) can run late, so if you have a consecutive recording
> on another channel, the end can be dropped. Again, adding overtime to
> the rule can solve this if you have multiple tuners.

BBC2 has always been a culprit - ever since the bad old days of
non-PDC VideoPlus. If you ever record University Challenge, you'll
know what I mean....

(rushes off to put a 2-minute 'end late' on, don't want to miss the
end of tonght's final...)

Peter
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Peter Bowyer
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