[mythtv-users] I'm sure I'm not setting up my recordings the best way.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/11/2009 09:09 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 09/11/2009 07:15 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>     
>>>  Every time I schedule a recording, set "Start Early" to 2 and "End
>>>  Late" to 5, which works well for the programs I watch. Does MythTV
>>>  have some way that I can make these defaults, and not have to set
>>>  them every time (particularly under Mythweb)? AFAIK these are hard
>>>  paddings. I'd like to keep with hard paddings because I prefer to
>>>  know up front that they cause conflicts than find later that the
>>>  padding wasn't applied.
>>>       
>> Unfortunately, no, there is not (yet) a way to create a recording rule
>> template or a "default" template.  There are plans to add the functionality,
>> but we still need to get the work done.
>>     
> Every one of my recordings has a hard rule to start 5 min early and
> end 5 min late.  This is not soft padding, it's the actual hard
> padding in the rules.
>
> Unfortunately I have NO idea how I accomplished this.  I've had it
> this way for at least 2 years, though.  Maybe it used to be an option
> (in .19 or something?) and has been set for me ever since?
>
> All I know is it's exactly like a template would be... when I do a new
> rule, and check the details, it's set for 5 before, 5 after already.

Ah, yes.  I stand corrected.  Those have their own setting.  And the 
initial timestretch, too, IIRC (though I don't know if we use that now 
that Playback Groups have a timestretch setting...?).  We really need to 
get the recording rule templates done to get rid of all those separate 
(and hard to find/remember :) settings.

Mike