[mythtv-users] Recording time too short?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/13/06 01:08, Thomas Börkel wrote:

>Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
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>>Not sure if it's me or myth, but my scheduled recordings are
>>consistently 5 seconds short of the "projected" recording time. I don't
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>That's normal. I guess it's the time to initialize the capture cards. 
>So, I think it does not stop 5s earlier but starts 5s later.
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Right.  See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/21064#21064 
and http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/21068#21068 
(they're back-to-back in the thread, so just click on the first link and 
read two posts :).

>>29:55". That's how I found out that it was 5 seconds short. Actually I
>>first noticed it when I was watching an episode of the Simpsons and the
>>recording stopped in the middle of a scene at the end of the show.
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>And that extra 5s would have done it? ;-)
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Simpsons oftens ends a few seconds after the listed end time.  If you 
don't want to lose that time add a 1-minute end late to the /recording 
rule/ (i.e. not the global "Time to record past end of show (in 
seconds)") and beware that doing so may cause conflicts--even with 
back-to-back recordings on Fox.

Mike