[mythtv] scheduling, starttime accuracy

[Janne Grunau]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 21:30:54 David Engel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:20:46PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 February 2009 17:51:41 David Engel wrote:
> > > That would be me several years ago.  I used (and still do) a 5
> > > second pre-roll and hated seeing all of my recordings displayed
> > > as starting at xx:29 and xx:59 and having filenames with *2957
> > > and *5957.  I changed the scheduler to round the starttime to the
> > > nearest minute.
> >
> > What about using progstart/progend for display purposes? I'm using
> > default "start early / end late" and the startime - 1minute annoys
> > me for well known programmes. starttime could then changed back to
> > the the exact time.
>
> I very much like seeing the actual [rounded] starttime displayed in
> PBB.  It's extremely useful when I or my hardware screw up and the
> recording starts late or automatically gets restarted after some
> failure.

I didn't think of that, we can't use progstart.

> FWIW, if I used greater than a 30-second pre-roll or
> start-early, however, I'd probably be annoyed by the starttime -
> 1-minute too.

It doesn't annoys me enough to change it. It is unfortunately necessary.

Janne