[mythtv-users] best practices for recording scheduling

[Tom Dexter]

On 10/24/07, Mark A. O'Neil <mark.a.oneil at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that recordings, mostly on the CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX etc
> have either been truncating the last few minutes - with the
> frustrating result of missing the ending of the show...It inhales
> greatly when the family misses the end of a 'Heros' episode!
>
> I am guessing that this is due to erratic (actual 'real' times vs the
> guide) scheduling on the part of the networks in question.
>
> Short of recording +/-5 minutes and the like is there another tactic?
> The problem I have with simply recording longer is that often this
> will result in overlap of recording on my three tuners, maintenance
> of network specific recording configurations, etc, thus creating
> another set of problems....
>
> I do use MythWeb for setting up recording schedules - could this be
> the problem (it has not in the past eg. v 0.19 - currently 0.20.x on
> Ubuntu)?
>
> Perhaps I am missing something trivial in my configuration - using
> defaults for most everything that I can think of while here at work.
>
>
> thanks,
> -m

Scheduling through mythweb should work exactly like scheduling via the
frontend.  I do almost all my scheduling with mythweb.

I'm in NJ and I receive New York OTA channels.  This year for the most
part I've found the schedules to be more accurate than in the past.
At worst I might miss the "next week on..." stuff.  I tend to use
either "record any time on channel..." schedules or "record only this
showing".  I only set up "record only this showing" schedules on the
day of the show after my mythfilldatabase has run to be safe.

If you can verify that the show is truly going past the end time in
the schedule then yes, it's just the station screwing with you, and
adding extra time is the only option (unless you happen to be
recording the next show as well).

It's possible you could have other issues however.  Make sure you're
clock on the backend is accurate.  I'd strongly recommend running ntpd
if you're not already.

Tom