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

[Matt Mossholder]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:09 +1200, 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.
> 
> Steve

Another way to go about it would be to have two entries to the same file
via a hardlink. You could have each entry to the file have its own name,
and deletion of one would not delete the other. Only by deleting both
file entries would the data be deleted. This would allow you to then
specify a start and end "bookmark" for each recording, associated with
the filename, and minimize the overall changes required in Myth (I would
think...)

Just an idea. I don't have the problem, personally. I have enough tuners
that it isn't an issue for me :)


		--Matt