[mythtv-users] Adjusting 1 channels start/stop time?

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 22:06:29 EDT 2005


On 10/07/05, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am sure that there are millions of people in my situation. :D  I
> record Star Trek: The Next Generation (which from here on out will be
> referred to as TNG) on any channel, at any time.  Which so far
> basically means I get it solely from Spike TV.
> 
> The problem I run into is that SpikeTV has got their clocks set by the
> sun, ntp is too far advanced for them.  So I occasionally get the tail
> end of Leave it Beaver before settling in for a good 42 minutes of
> CAPT Picard saving the Federation from a war with the Cardacians.
> This I can handle, and actually set it up to work this way (read on).
> However, there are occasions when I sit down with my fresh cup of root
> beer only to see that I'm in the middle of opening sequence, or even
> at times, opening credits (which generally come after the first
> commercial break!).  I've compensated for this by adjusting the global
> "start early" by (I think) 3 minutes or so.  It works ok about 10% of
> the time, with "The Beav" doing something boring.  But it seems more
> often than not I'm 3 or 4 minutes into the episode before it starts
> recording (I rarely watch LiveTV).
> 
> Are there any options?  I know I can just move the global bit to start
> 4 more minutes in the future, but I'd rather lose the rare beginning
> of a show on SpikeTV and get the rest of my flicks on other channels
> with only about 2 minutes of pre-commercial garbage.
> 
> So basicall, I am hoping there is a feature I can't find to adjust a
> specific channels start early stop late times.
> 
> If not, I can live with it, but it would surely be nice to have this feature.
> 
> PS:  I've got 3 tuner cards already, so it's not a problem with
> freeing up a tuner card.

Okay this is very odd. I know Spike TV are a little "Creative" in
their interpretation of timeslots, but I have my MythTV box set up to
record any instance of ST: TNG, and that means I get 3 episodes from
Spike TV (Canadian Feed) and one from Space.

I have never had any problem with my Myth box missing the end of the
first episode, and the second (And third) in the run of 3 both start
at the "Copyright Paramount Pictures" screen on the end credits of the
recording before (Reasonable, as Spike don't put an ad-break between
the episodes, just a quick "Now & Next" page).

I have MythTV set to "Extend" recordings 10 seconds on each end (Just in case).

I am using NTPD to time-sync, with the servers set to:

server ca.pool.ntp.org
server pool.ntp.org
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 13

With NTPQ reporting:

ntpq> peers
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
+raptor.tera-byt 209.87.233.53    3 u  415 1024  377   45.486   -1.108   2.398
+kneipix.wu-wien 80.83.192.129    3 u  401 1024  377  209.883  -31.218   6.136
*time.as-compute 131.188.3.221    2 u  469 1024  377  219.347   21.218  15.459
 LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        13 l   55   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.001


So I'm not sure what the problem is here.

As Bugzilla would say: WORKSFORME
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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