[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this (overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?

[Janne Grunau]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:09, Steve Hodge wrote:
> How about implementing this way: if two shows are consecutive treat
> them as a single program and record them into a single file. Have a
> marker for the start of the second program (start time less the start
> early setting) so that when it is accessed from the recorded programs
> screen playback starts from where you'd expect it to. But don't
> delete the file until both programs have been deleted. This does mean
> that deleting a program may not free up any space but other than that
> it should be a pretty unobtrusive way of implementing this
> functionality.

No, this is unfortunately not true. Writing the same data in the 
recorder to two or more disticnt files is rather simple (at least for 
the recorders I know).
Changing MythTV to handle more than one recording at one time per card 
is much harder. And your proposal adds only more complexity to this 
task.

The only advantage of your idea is that the overlapping part is only 
once on the HDD. But this disk space saving are imho neglectable.

Janne

ps: MythTV will be able to record overlapping programs with only one 
card. It's on my list.