[mythtv] NTP config

[Michael T. Dean]

Rudy Zijlstra wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>>> In the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany - those i am certain of 
>>> - programs can start more than 20 minutes later than announced. Not 
>>> on all channels, some are worse than others, yet most channels are 
>>> "late" by 23:00 or later. Which is why i am using a hard "end-late" 
>>> setting on all recordings, and enough tuners so that recordings do 
>>> not need to be back-to-back on the same tuner.
>>
>> Wait a minute...  You're using start early/end late the way they were 
>> designed to be used?  From reading the lists, it seems like you 
>> should be using global pre-/post-roll, instead, and complaining on 
>> the list when it doesn't get the end of your show.  ;)
>>
>> (Note to anyone reading this:  I'm being sarcastic here.  Please, do 
>> /not/ abuse pre-/post-roll and complain to the lists instead of 
>> designing/configuring your system appropriately.  If you use the 
>> system like Rudy does, it works.)
>
> I would dearly love to have a global start early / end-late setting, 
> with the scheduler showing the those modified times, yes. Now i have 
> to set them time and again on all recordings...

Yeah.  There was some talk about recording rule defaults on the lists ( 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/77459#77459 ), but 
other than initial excitement, it didn't seem to generate enough 
interest for someone to make the patch.  Sounds like that would be very 
useful for you.

> P.S. on one program, which is currently scheduled after a seemingly 
> very popular (i don't care about it myself) live program, i have an 
> end-late of 60 minutes.....

Wow.  Recording that much junk would make storage management a 
challenge--you'd have to have a lot of extra disk space or edit 
everything after recording.  I'd say we in the US have it pretty easy in 
comparison.

Mike