[mythtv-users] Events at the beginning of a recording

[John Pilkington]

On 09/02/2023 09:58, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 09/02/2023 04:36, David Engel wrote:
>>> But I still might!  Someday.  When I have a better solution to the
>>> misuse.  I've never bought the "my guide data is bad" argument and I
>>> still don't.  In the immortal words of Steve Jobs, "You're doing it
>>> wrong?" :)
>>>
>>> Either you care about catching the beginning or ends or your
>>> recordings or you don't.
>>
>> Also, how many of you that claim you must have long pre- and
>> post-rolls have actually tried using start early/end late instead?  I
>> suspect most of you would get by just fine.
> 
> Just to state my understanding of your point: I believe you refer to
> specifying pre and post-roll in recording rules, is that right? (Perhaps
> I'm not using the correct terminology here; apologies if so).
> 
> If so, the reason why I am now using the global pre-roll feature is
> that, in my understanding, it enables back-to-back recordings on the
> same capture card, whereas with recording rule-specified pre/post-rolls
> two capture cards are needed to record back-to-back programs.
> 
Maybe your more complex system has this problem, but I have no such 
difficulty with my DVB-T/T2 tuners when using a default recording rule, 
2m early 4m late, with EIT data.  Most of my recordings are 
single-record only, aand back-to-back happens often.

John P

> The other reason is one of convenience: it is easier to specify
> pre/post-roll periods in only one place rather than having to do so in
> each recording rule. Particularly if a bad experience shows that the
> pre/post-roll periods need to be extended. Please keep in mind that the
> guide data unreliability we face here is universal and unpredictable, so
> the pre/post-roll periods need to be applied to all recordings.
> 
> I used to use recording rule-specified pre/post-rolls but switched to
> the global approach for these reasons.
> 
> BTW (and I don't mean to annoy you), a dream feature sidestepping the
> first reason above would be to add "multirec" capabilities to all
> capture cards, by regarding a regular (currently non-multirec capable)
> tuner as one that has as many "multiplexes" as it has channels it can
> tune to (i.e. 1 channel = 1 multiplex), such that a channel can be
> recorded from multiple times at once. This would enable recording
> back-to-back shows, with each recording containing its own pre/post-roll.
> 
>>> If you do care, you should use the start early/end late options.
>>> That's what they are for(*).  If there is a conflict, wouldn't you
>>> really rather have the scheduler choose a later showing that woh't get
>>> chopped off?  IMO, that's much better hoping that the tetris blocks
>>> just happen to fall in perfect way by accident.  If there is a
>>> conflict, the scheduler will tell you so that YOU can make the best,
>>> informed decision on what to do.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't understand this point. The scheduler cannot know
> whether a show is going to be chopped off because it can only base its
> decisions on the guide data it has at its disposal. If that guide data
> is unreliable all bets are off.
> 
> HTH, Jan
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