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

[Daniel Walton]

>     c) While you're at it, one thing I've always wanted is for play
>        to start at the actual start time of a show when I add buffering
>        to the start of a program.  Ie. if I have recording start 30
>        seconds early (which I do on all shows) I want playback to begin
>        30 seconds into the file, at the real start time, and I can
>        rewind if I want to see the earlier stuff.  Of course, today,
>        I just hit 30 second skip every time.

It should be doable to write a script that runs after each recording that sets a
bookmark at the real start time.  Myth will start playing from the bookmark by
default so this would do what you are looking for.

Daniel