[mythtv-users] Increasing recording time

[David Levine]

It's my understanding that Tivo only does this when the schedule is
changed far enough in advance.

Also, as far as the potential feature being discussed here goes, I've
been picturing it something like a function you could hit while the
recording is underway (key on keyboard or remote) that would
automatically push the end-time for the recording back by 30 minutes. 
You keep hitting it every time you want to extend it.  If you know the
thing is going to run an hour long, hit it twice and forget about it. 
If you're not sure, hit it once each time there's just a few minutes
left on the recording but it looks like it's still running long.

--David



On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:40:43 -0600, Dave K. Packham
<dave.packham at utah.edu> wrote:
> How does Tivo and the likes pull this off?  Don't they record a show
> that's moved?  Of delayed?  I missed that last goal kick on the USA
> womens soccer game cause time was "UP"
> 
> Dave P
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Increasing recording time
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:56:12 -0400, pete <tyrstag at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > At 06:49 PM 9/22/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > >On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:34:38 -0400, William
> <wmunson at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > > If I'm recording a program like a sports event and it runs over
> > > > > the scheduled time, how do I increase the recording time so it
> > > > > will record the whole game? I tried going into the scheduler and
> 
> > > > > increasing the record time, but that doesn't seem to work after
> > > > > it's already started recording.
> > > >
> > > > The way I do it is a poor hack but it does work. When I record
> > > > events that have an unknown length I always use a manual recording
> 
> > > > and I set the stop time well past the max possible time (extra
> > > > hour on a ballgame typically) that the game could go. If I want to
> 
> > > > save it to disk I just cut out the extra crud before burning. Disk
> 
> > > > space is not an issue, I have 500 GB allocated to storage.
> > >
> > >Why not just set the "end late" to 60 mintues in the reocrding rule
> then?
> >
> > Yes, that works if the game only goes an hour over, last night for
> > instance the game I was watching but not recording went 1.5 hours over
> 
> > scheduled time. Last week a game was in rain delay and stopped and
> > restarted twice, it ended 3 hours late.
> >
> > There should be some way of increasing recording time once it's
> started.
> > Unfortunately, I suck at programming or I would give it a whack
> myself.
> >
> > --P
> >
> 
> I can see how an "extend recording" feature  would be useful when
> recording a baseball game where there are extra innings or rain delays.
> But I'm just not too sure what could be used to be smart enough to
> handle it.  There's nothing in the programming schedule that could give
> you a heads up of a rain delay for example.  You would have to manually
> change it, which is the same thing as just altering a manual recording.
> 
> I usually just manually record my mythbox to record for 4 hours when
> recording my Bears games, but that would never extend to 3 hours past
> the recording time.  They play rain or shine usually.
>