[mythtv-users] Network execs added 1 minute to program length

[Yan Seiner]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Taine Gilliam wrote:
> 
>> I'd have thought the schedule set for 9:00-10:00 would start  
>> immediately
>> once the schedule at 8:00-9:01 was complete. Unless the later schedule
>> had a higher priority in which case the 8:00-9:01 should be stopped at
>> 9:00 to begin the second recording. Even my really cheap VCR can  
>> handle
>> this one.
> 
> MythTV assumes you want the whole show, not part of it.  So if it  
> sees overlap, it's going to try to reschedule the later recording for  
> another time.  If it can't, you'll get a conflict.
> 
> To give a more obvious case:  If I have a show on one channel that  
> runs from 10:00 to 11:00, and I have a show on another channel that  
> runs from 10:00 to 10:30, I obviously don't want Myth to record one  
> show from 10:00 to 10:30, then record only the last half of other one.

Hmmm... If this becomes common practice, should there be a setting for 
allowable overlap?

(My cynical mind is telling me this could be the networks' way to mess 
up recording popular shows....)

Say, 3 minutes or 5 minutes or whatever?

That way you could say, start recording at 10:00 to 10:05, which would 
allow this sort of overlap.


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