[mythtv-users] Recordings starting a minute late instead of early

[Nick Morrott]

On 6 June 2011 15:58, D. R. Newman <d.r.newman at e-consultation.org> wrote:
> On 06/06/11 14:58, John Veness wrote:
>> On 06/06/2011 14:46, D. R. Newman wrote:
>>> But none of you are addressing my problem. For some series, the
>>> recordings start 60 s early. For other series, the recordings start 60 s
>>> late.
>>>
> If I knew where to look in the database tables,
>>> I could check if some have an offset set to +60 and others to -60.
>>
>> I think it's the "record" table, field "startoffset" and "endoffset",
>> see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Record_table.
>
> Thank you John and Alex. It turns out that all entries in my record
> table have startoffset = 0 and endoffset = 0, so that is not the cause
> of my problem. Is there more than one default offset setting? Could they
> be in conflict?

The differences between hard padding (per-rule and always taken into
account by the scheduler) and soft padding (/may/ be added after
scheduling has finished, but never guaranteed) has been discussed many
times on the list. Please check the archives for Mike Dean's very
detailed descriptions.

For details on the soft padding option (which is a global setting) please see:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend#General_.28Advanced.29

Cheers,
Nick

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