[mythtv-users] Starting recordings early and finishing late not working

[Nick Morrott]

On 5 March 2010 09:54, Ian Oliver <lists at foxhill.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <VA.00002569.026d241f at foxhill.co.uk>, Ian Oliver wrote:
>> I have now tweaked existing rules, and set a test recording, which got padded in
>> the right direction.
>
> OK, I set five mins early start and 10 mins late end. I also cut the tuner pre-
> start to just a few seconds.
>
> Now we have a new problem!
>
> My daughter set Friends to record at 5pm to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 6pm on E4. This
> has been recording two Friends per day for weeks. When I cut the tuner pre-start,
> she started missing the start as this scheduled event didn't have the five mins
> early start. So, I deleted the rules and created two new ones, again using
> "Recording this time slot every day"
>
> One of the rules is recording every day, but they other says it will record on the
> 5th but then not again until the 10th. The show does seem to occasionally move five
> minutes in the schedule - could this be the problem?  I wonder why it was working
> before?

Are you sure it hasn't recorded them before and is ignoring them? With
multirec (mentioned earlier in the thread) you shouldn't be having any
of these problems, as you have sufficient virtual tuners to cope with
per-rule overlaps on the same channel.

What is the output of:

$ mythbackend --printsched | fgrep "Friends"

This might help to shed some light on what is going on.


Cheers,
Nick

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