[mythtv-users] Recordings start & end 10 seconds too soon, on all channels
Tim Draper
veehexx at zoho.com
Tue Mar 22 12:45:09 UTC 2016
---- On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:59:07 +0000 Michael T. Dean<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote ----
> That will help to allow more use of the "Time to record before
> start/past end of show (secs)", but only solves the problem if you
> generally don't record multiple shows at the same time. Statistically,
> it can only work if you record fewer shows at a given time than half
> your inputs. If you have an HDHR Prime with CableCARD that provides 3
> inputs, that means it will only give you the extra time if you record
> less than 1.5 shows at a given time. So, realistically, that means you
> can record 2 shows at a time as long as you'll only record a single show
> after those 2 and then 2 then 1 ... (So, 2 shows from 8-9 and 1 from
> 9-10 and 2 from 10-11 or whatever).
>
> This is not at all how recordings work on my system. Generally, during
> prime time, my system is recording 5 shows at any given time and they're
> followed by 5 more from the start to the end of prime time, which is
> more than half of my 6 inputs. (I occasionally have 6 recordings at
> once, but some days--even in prime time--I might have only a couple.)
> This is because I'm using the DVR as a DVR--basically, I record
> everything I might possibly ever choose to watch, and then delete those
> things I later decide not to watch (i.e. after they cancel the show and
> people are saying it's not worth watching or if people say it's not
> worth watching or if I watch some and decide there's no way it will get
> good enough to watch it). This way, though, I always have something
> already recorded (allowing me to skip commercials and time stretch) and
> am never forced to sit through watching whatever garbage is currently
> airing on someone else's schedule (where that schedule includes
> commercials).
>
> FWIW, most of the time, the "Time to record before start/past end of
> show (secs)" turns out to be a placebo that satisfies most users--and
> really has far less benefit than people believe. If you can't count on
> it, it's not much offering much at all, but it's amazing how many people
> swear by it (without ever looking to see how infrequently it actually
> benefits them). The only people for which it generally works are people
> who have twice as many inputs as they need--and those people would
> actually be better served by just using the Start Early/End Late
> settings on the recording rules (because they have plenty of inputs) and
> could even record more shows without problems. If you do want to
> over-record by 1 minute at the start and end of each show, you should
> set Start Early/End Late to 1 in the default Recording Rule Template to
> make it easier to set up new recording rules.
>
good points. i tend not to have that many shows in concurrent recording so back-to-back doesnt affect me. most of my shows have a limit of 3 to avoid recording everything, and more channels seem to be +1/mid-week repeats so it just gets recorded then.
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