[mythtv-users] 30 second early?

[Saul A. Peebsen]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:12:51 -0700
Ross Boylan <rossboylan at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
> 
> > ......
> >
> > Actually, the scheduler completely ignores the global:
> >
> > Time to record before start of show (secs)
> > This global setting allows the recorder to start before the
> > scheduled start time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is
> > ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in
> > between.
> >
> > and
> >
> > Time to record past end of show (secs)
> > This global setting allows the recorder to record beyond the
> > scheduled end time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is ignored
> > when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between.
> >
> > The "recorder" may use them.
> >
> > > I'm using that, but I've seen one statement that these times don't
> > > control recording start at all, but only system power-up before
> > > recording.
> >
> > Yeah, basically.  The "Time to record before start.." applies only
> > to first use of a tuner and "Time to record past end..." applies
> > only to last use of a tuner in a string of back-to-back recordings
> > with that tuner.  I.e. it's little more than a placebo and (as you
> > said) should never be expected on any recording.  If you want to
> > record extra, you should tell the scheduler to schedule that time
> > and have sufficient tuners to record what you want.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> Thanks for the info.  I had not understood the distinction between
> scheduled times and actual recording times.  So if I'm understanding,
> the globals will actually start recording (not just power up the
> system) early or continuing late provided doing so does not cause
> overlap with other recordings.  Right?

In actuality, once I observed real weird logic ... I have a dual card
and a recording was split into three files, apparently it started
recording on tuner 2 (tuner 1 was scheduled to finish 2 min late), when
tuner 1 finished it switched to tuner 1 ... and for some reason the
last 2 min were recorded with tuner 2 again ... go figure. 

-- 
Cheers, Saul