[mythtv-users] recording to dvd

Dan Brown dan at familybrown.org
Mon Jun 4 15:03:46 UTC 2007


Quoting norman <norman at littletank.org>:

> I am still very much feeling my way and would welcome an answer to this
> observation. The computer is set to record a programme due to start at,
> say, 2.00 pm which lasts 30 minutes. The recording is archived and then
> burnt to a DVD. When the DVD is played the start of the programme is
> missing.

It seems that the first thing to check is whether the start of the  
program has been recorded at all, which has nothing to do with the  
DVD.  When you watch the program through MythTV (before archiving it),  
do you have the start of the program then?  If not, your suspicion  
that it is the computer's clock is correct.

In that case, you can do either, or both, of two things.  First, use  
NTP to keep your computer's clock set correctly.  How to enable this  
depends on your Linux distribution, but often there's an option to  
syncronize time to the internet or some such thing.  The second thing  
you can do is to tell Myth to start the recording a couple of minutes  
early.

-- 
Dan Brown, KE6MKS, dan at familybrown.org
"Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the
more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring."
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