[mythtv-users] schedule and soft roll-in roll-out

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Nov 7 19:12:52 UTC 2013


On Nov 7, 2013, at 7:38, blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> With hard padding it uses three virtual tuners where it only needs
> two.  
> 
> More surprising, leading soft padding has gone missing in both 
> 0.27 and 0.28, although not for the first recording in a batch.  

Hard padding is for software issues, faulty scheduling data.  Soft padding is for hardware issues, tuners that need some amount of lead time to spool up of their first recording.  If you're trying to use soft padding for scheduling issues, it's not going to work as you expect or as the developers intend.


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