[mythtv-users] Can't record consecutive shows on the same channel

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Jul 5 14:29:11 UTC 2013


On 05/07/13 15:24, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 05/07/13 15:17, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 7/5/2013 10:02 AM, Angela wrote:
>>>> Suppose there is a multi-part documentary aired on one channel, one
>>>> part
>>>> after the other. When I select to record all parts, only the first
>>>> will be
>>>> recorded, the remaining ones won't.
>>>>
>>>> Note I'm not starting early and finishing late, so there is no
>>>> overlap. I
>>> just
>>>> want Mythtv to (e.g.) record part 1 at 04:45-05:30, part 2 at
>>>> 05:30-06:15,
>>> and
>>>> part 3 at 06:15-07:00.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Mythtv 0.26 and a single DVB-S2 tuner card. Failing to record
>>>> consecutive shows has now happened twice when no other activity was
>>>> going on.
>>> I posted the following two weeks ago, but didn't receive an answer.
>>>     I have "Time to record past end of show" set to 10 minutes,
>>> back-to-back recordings work.
>>>     For some schedules I need to set an endoffset of about 20 minutes.
>>>     Back-to-Back is not working anymore, resulting in many conflicts. Is
>>> there an option in MythTV, where the endoffset is also handled as a soft
>>> endtime ?
>>>
>>> Check that "Time to record past end of show" is 0, to allow consecutive
>>> shows to be recorded.
>>
>> This should be unnecessary, as 'multirec' should take care of allowing
>> overlapping padding on back-to-back recordings.
>
> But Raymond's other point about failure to recognise programmes as
> different might still apply.  Can you identify likely conflicts in
> 'Upcoming Recordings@?
>

And I suppose that, if your programmes are overrunning, EIT data might 
be updated so that a 'record at a specific time' rule might be ignored. 
  Perhaps 'record at any time'?.



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