[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this with recordings?

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 26 17:47:23 UTC 2006


chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:31:57AM -0400, George Nychis wrote:
>   
>> If I set the first show to end 1 minute late, and I have only 1 tuner,
>> is mythtv smart enough to put the 6:00pm-6:01pm minute into both recordings?
>>     
>
> No.
>
> It all comes down to the same design choice we discussed a week or 
> two ago when talking about how live TV buffers can wipe out half 
> your hard drive if you leave it tuned to a channel that has no 
> program data: the original decision to handle each recording as a 
> monolithic file has imposed all kinds of limitations on the system 
> but to go back and fix that now would be a lot of work because 
> everything that came after was built with that same assumption.
>   
that doesn't sound right.
If there is no program data, how can mythtv record so much?

> Had Myth been designed from the beginning to record into small 
> files and join them during playback then a lot of the requested 
> features would be trivial to impliment instead of being nearly 
> impossible, yours included.
>   
That doesn't sound right, either. At what resolution of file size do you 
think this would be acceptable?
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