[mythtv-users] Can I stop the truncation of pre-roll/post-roll

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:13:12PM +1000, ffrr wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> >>Is it possible to stop the truncation of pre-roll/post-roll?
> >>
> >Global pre/post roll is soft and not meant to cover programming slides 
> >that networks do.  It is designed to account for slight delays in 
> >starting up recorders, etc.

These are labelled

  Time to record before start of show (in seconds)
  Time to record past end of show (in seconds)

in mythtv-setup.  There is one global setting.

AFAIK you can't set this in mythtweb.

> >The per-program pre/post roll is hard and will cause the scheduler to 
> >always record it.  Use this if you want to guarantee that you get the 
> >roll, but be warned, it will bump other programs as conflicts if this 
> >happens.  In that case, get yourself enough tuners to handle all the 
> >schedules you have.

These are labelled

  Start recording on time / X minutes early / late
  End recording on time / X minutes early / late

for each recording schedule in the scheduling options in mythfrontend.
There are lots of these, one per recording.

You can set this in mythweb too - its labelled

  Start Early: [X] minutes
  End Late:    [X] minutes

In the edit recording schedule page

> Can I check some terminology here? Is the 'per-program pre/post roll' 
> you refer to, the same thing as 'start early / end late settings' that 
> Rudy was talking about earlier? (copy of what he said below...)
> 
> Short answer: you are mis-using. For the behaviour you want, you need to 
> use the start early / end late settings, which actually change the 
> scheduler times. The pre- ad post-roll are for a different purpose (like 
> getting the backend running in time when using a lan wake-up, allowing 
> for long tuner times, things like that).

I think they are, yes.

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