[mythtv-users] tv programs that run long

[Garry Cook]

On 5/18/05, Jay Cornell <jaycornell at comcast.net> wrote:
> Last night my wife was watching the Gilmore Girls on MythTV.  (I started
> working on Myth around Christmas--my wife got a PVR, and I got a new
> system to work on.)  Anyway, she was very upset when the recording cut
> off the last few minutes of the show.  She said that TVO wouldn't have
> done that.
> 
> Apparently, all of her friends TVO's did the same thing.  She apologized
> to me, and I think her faith in Myth is back.   I have set the option to
> add 60 seconds to the tail end of all recordings as a safe guard.
> 
> I hope this isn't too much off topic, but I felt compelled to share it
> with you.
> 
> Jay

I add 120 seconds to the beginning and end of each recording. That
way, when the dog chews through my patch cable and it takes me a few
days to figure out that NTP is not updating and the clock is drifting,
I'm still OK.

--Garry