[mythtv-users] How to record a TV serial

[Simon Hobson]

Stephan Seitz wrote:

>Yes, the rule is to record daily at this time. I 
>would wish Mythtv would be more tolerant to such 
>divergences. The title of the programme is the 
>same. And I set the options so that the 
>recordings starts 5 minutes earlier and stops 10 
>minutes later. This should always match.

The pre-roll and post-roll padding is not to 
fudge the recording times, it's to record a lead 
in and lead out to cover for the broadcaster not 
sticking to their schedule. Ie, if the program is 
transmitted 2 minutes early, then you'd be left 
with 3 minutes of lead-in padding instead of 5 
(or losing 2 minutes off the recording if you 
didn't pad it).

I'll guarantee that if this padding affected the 
scheduler as you want, then we'd have a lot of 
complaints about it being wrong. <mutters about 
can't please all the people all the time ...>

Others have given you options that should deal 
with the issue. I agree that it's a right PITA 
when serials are transmitted without any episode 
information.

>>Your recording rules should be "record all" for both shows. If you have
>>anything else you are doing something wrong.
>>("record all on this channel" would work, too. But I avoid it to keep
>>things simple. e.g. when recording crime series that run on ZDF with
>>repeats on ZDFneo)
>
>Okay, I tried it with taff. I switched to 
>“record all on this channel" and all taff shows 
>are shown. Sadly the description is the same for 
>all episodes (at least today), so the recurrence 
>check deactivates all recordings. Besides that I 
>have now the nocturnal shows in the recording 
>list as well which is annoying because the 
>backend isn't running at night.

If your backend isn't running full time, then you 
should be fixing your guide data to tell the 
truth to the scheduler. For what I'd consider 
normal viewing habits, you're almost certain to 
lose recordings sooner or later by lying to the 
scheduler. If you correct your guide data so that 
programs are not available when the backend is 
turned off, the scheduler will not attempt to 
schedule recordings during those times - and will 
correctly flag a conflict if that means you then 
run out of tuners during the day.
"Lying" in this case means giving it information 
that it can record programs at times when it 
won't be powered on and able to do so.
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