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

[Steve Daniels]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Janne Grunau
> Sent: 27 July 2006 01:16
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do
> this(overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?
> 
> 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.

Hey Janne,

It's also on Aaron McCarthy's list and on trac here
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1772 just in case you didn't know :-)
(well the patch there can do it at the moment I think, but it's the start of
bigger and better things so you can record multiple channels from a single
mux with one tuner at the same time!)

HTH

Steve Daniels

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