<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 11:37, Jan Ceuleers <<a href="mailto:jan.ceuleers@gmail.com">jan.ceuleers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 08/02/2023 00:44, David Engel wrote:<br>
>> speak for Klaas but for me that's a little more involved than I want to get<br>
>> into right now. We just want the scheduler to send out the events in the<br>
>> correct order and at the right times. The correct behavior appears to be to<br>
>> sent out REC_PENDING events at 120, 90, 60 and 30 seconds before a recording<br>
>> starts, taking any pre-roll into account, and then send a REC_STARTED event<br>
>> when the recording actually starts recording. Any thoughts and how to fix<br>
>> the scheduler to do that correctly?<br>
> <br>
> I see. Sounds like one more reason, IMO, to kill user-configurable<br>
> pre- and post-roll. Maybe you all (that's not specifically directed<br>
> at any single person) can appreciate the extra, unnecessary complexity<br>
> that adds. I'd much rather fix it at 30 seconds or so and add a new<br>
> feature to allow starting some recordings up to so many minutes late.<br>
> Yes, I know that horse has been dead for a long time but I still enjoy<br>
> beating it. It makes me feel better.<br>
<br>
Please don't. The reason why I use pre-roll (and quite a long-one at<br>
that) is that in this part of the world the guide data is quite<br>
unreliable (meaning that channels see them more as guidelines than as a<br>
commitment to viewers).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I thought the same when I read this. Isn't it the case that a lot of MythTV users will be making use of the user-configurable pre and post roll times? I know I do. While UK programming doesn't usually tend to start early, it can do occasionally, so I use a 2 minute pre roll. A 4 minute post roll in the UK seems to be enough to catch a very high percentage of any late running programmes other than those delayed by sporting events that overrun. I don't use EIT, so I don't know if that would get updated quickly enough here to adjust recording times for overrunning sports events in any case.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Cheers, Ian</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div>