[mythtv] scheduling, starttime accuracy

[Nigel Pearson]

On 13/02/2009, at 2:47 AM, Stuart Morgan wrote:

> On Thursday 12 February 2009 15:17:42 Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> Just curious.   How does *your* system know, given only the  
>> cutlist and the
>> starttime to jump/cut at the right places?  It seems that even  
>> your local
>> data would suffer from this same "drift" given only those pieces of
>> information.
>
> Cutlists are frame based, not time based. So Nigel's problem is  
> that the
> recording starts 3 seconds earlier on his machine meaning that  
> frame 1234 !=
> frame 1234 on the other recording.

Correct.
We thought NTP synch. would be good enough.
It ain't.
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