[mythtv-users] fixing program time-slot overrun

[Jim Abernathy]

On 03/19/2018 12:08 PM, David Engel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 02:05:16AM +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:52:34 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for an easy solution, if it exist.  Sometimes in the US, OTA
>>> TV sports run long and pushes the entire evening schedule off by 30-40
>>> minutes.  To make sure I record everything, I record all prime time
>>> programs on that channel and at least 60 minutes of late night TV.
>>>
>>> I'd like to reassemble the programs into their correct form and create
>>> entries in the listings for each.  If I could quickly do this then
>>> everyone else in the household could just watch as normal.  Otherwise we
>>> all have to watch pieces of different shows and remember not to delete
>>> them until everyone has watched those night's shows.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> Jim A
>> If multirec works on your tuner(s), then you should be able to enable
>> that and tell MythTV to record 60 minutes extra on each program you
>> want.  That is what I do with my DVB tuners.  Mythbackend will use
>> multirec to record multiple recordings from the same tuner at the same
>> time, including from the same channel at the same time.  That will
>> create larger files, but all the content needed for each recording
>> will be in the same file.
>>
>> Multirec should work with any directly connected ATSC tuner, but not
>> if you have to use an STB of some sort.  I think it works with
>> networked ATSC tuners now also, but that may depend on the tuner.
> It works with most tuners used to record from an STB too.
>
> David

Well, I can test this the next time Golf or Basketball runs long, but 
the editing features of mythfrontend don't seem to have an option for 
extracting a cutlist portion to a new file.  So the current problem will 
have to be viewed the old fashion way.

Jim A

>> If you do need to watch part of another recording file, you can use
>> the M (menu) > Recording Options > Change Recording Metadata to add a
>> note at the end of the description that is displayed for the
>> recording, telling people what is going on.  That same menu allows you
>> also to change the name of a recording or it subtitle.  So if a
>> program has slipped completely from one recording to the next, you can
>> rename the recordings.
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