[mythtv-users] best practices for recording scheduling

[George Mari]

Mark A. O'Neil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that recordings, mostly on the CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX etc  
> have either been truncating the last few minutes - with the  
> frustrating result of missing the ending of the show...It inhales  
> greatly when the family misses the end of a 'Heros' episode!
> 
> I am guessing that this is due to erratic (actual 'real' times vs the  
> guide) scheduling on the part of the networks in question.
> 
> Short of recording +/-5 minutes and the like is there another tactic?  
> The problem I have with simply recording longer is that often this  
> will result in overlap of recording on my three tuners, maintenance  
> of network specific recording configurations, etc, thus creating  
> another set of problems....
> 
> I do use MythWeb for setting up recording schedules - could this be  
> the problem (it has not in the past eg. v 0.19 - currently 0.20.x on  
> Ubuntu)?
> 
> Perhaps I am missing something trivial in my configuration - using  
> defaults for most everything that I can think of while here at work.
> 
> 

You didn't mention whether you have the NTP daemon setup on your 
backend?  Accurate timekeeping is the first thing to make sure you have.

Someone else responded with a thread on how to deal with this from a 
scheduling strategy, which is also relevant.