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

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:13:12PM +1000, ffrr wrote:
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>>Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>>Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
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>>>>Is it possible to stop the truncation of pre-roll/post-roll?
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>>>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.
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>These are labelled
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>  Time to record before start of show (in seconds)
>  Time to record past end of show (in seconds)
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>in mythtv-setup.  There is one global setting.
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>AFAIK you can't set this in mythtweb.
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>>>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.
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>These are labelled
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>  Start recording on time / X minutes early / late
>  End recording on time / X minutes early / late
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>for each recording schedule in the scheduling options in mythfrontend.
>There are lots of these, one per recording.
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>You can set this in mythweb too - its labelled
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>  Start Early: [X] minutes
>  End Late:    [X] minutes
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>In the edit recording schedule page
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>>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...)
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>>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).
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>I think they are, yes.
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They are.