[mythtv-users] Right then....how to tell recording to start xxx minutes in rather then at beginning?

[Another Sillyname]

Yea, skip doesn't want to work on HD transmissions.....I hadn't tried
edit though....good idea I'll try it later.

Tnks.

On 3 August 2016 at 20:50, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> On 03/08/16 20:09, Another Sillyname wrote:
>>
>> The BBC are now showing the Olympics in a glorious 8 channel Red
>> Button festival....I won't sleep for a month!!!!
>>
>> However I'll explain for non UK based users.
>>
>> The BBC Red Button service in effect turns digital channels on and off
>> as required so if a certain Olympics event is due to start at say
>> 14:00 the programming will start at say 13:45 and the channel will go
>> live literally maybe a minute before the programming starts.
>>
>> In SD this hasn't usually created a problem.
>>
>> However in HD when you try to playback the recording has started
>> early.....the HD decoder tries to play the file and borks (as the
>> channel probably hasn't 'turned on' when the recording started), if
>> you play the file with VLC it's fine...so it's there.
>>
>> I suspect that myth is looking for video info at the start of playback
>> to decide what decode mode it needs to go into and when there isn't
>> any it segfaults.
>>
>> So how can I tell myth to start playback say 4 minutes into a recording?
>>
>> I can't change the recording rules...there's far far to many
>> recordings to want to mess around with (unless I can setup a rule such
>> as "If this recording is on 'BBC RB HD' then start recording 5 minutes
>> later then normal).
>>
> I've had a similar problem with (SD) programs starting at 19:00 on BBC4 as I
> set 5 minutes pre-roll and there often isn't anything there at the start of
> recording.
>
> The quick way round that is to press 'skip' while the "Please Wait" words
> are on the screen, which surprisingly works. That jumps the preset skip
> distance into the file and is usually enough to get past the blank bit.
>
> You can also press 'E' when "Please Wait" is displayed and that gives you
> the chance to edit out the offending bit of bad recording.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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