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

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:31:27AM -0700, Brad Templeton wrote:
> I think in general that when most people add padding, they don't
> mean "and don't record another show I asked for if it would interfere
> with the padding."    They might mean that sometimes, but I suspect
> they mean, "pad if you can" most of the time and only rarely
> "pad, and damn the torpedoes."

In Australia most prime time shows on the commercial networks start
and late, often by 5 or more minutes.  To make matters somewhat worse,
some networks tend to make their shows start 5 or 10 minutes past the
half hour.  And shows often start immediately after the end of the
previous show, with no intervening commercials.  Put together, if you
don't record 5 to 10 minutes past the scheduled end of a show, you
stand a better than even chance of missing the end.  Not good for WAF.

A cavalier approach to padding at the end of recordings would not work
well here.

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