[mythtv-users] tv programs that run long

[Robert Tsai]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:48:26PM -0600, Garry Cook wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Warnings: this will cause conflicts with shows in the
immediately-preceding and -following time slots ...

--Rob
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