[mythtv] Re: Re: Re: Ticket #255: Improved scheduling of consecutive programs with pre-roll/overrecord

Mark Kundinger mkundinger at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 1 00:15:19 UTC 2005


--- David Engel <gigem at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:37:21PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 September 2005 06:48 pm, David Engel wrote:
> > > 3. Limit the existing pre-roll and post-roll settings to 30
> seconds
> > >    maximum.
> > 
> > My global pre/post roll settings have been set to 3 minutes each
> for several 
> > years now.
> 
> How often do those 3 minutes actually matter?  I use 5 seconds for
> pre-roll and 15 seconds for post-roll and has always been enough for
> my needs.  If 30 seconds is too small, suggest another value.
> 
> David


Absent other changes with scheduling, I would recommend one of two
values for the max pre-roll setting:

1)  999 (the max that would presumably fit in the interface)
2)  whatever the max currently is.

Just to avoid user disruption.


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