[mythtv-users] BBC Timing issues

[Paul Gardiner]

Jon Bishop wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>> Mike Holden wrote:
>>> Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> Mike Holden wrote:
>>>>> Soft padding is set in TV Settings -> General, 4th screen, in the  
>>>>> "Time
>>>>> to
>>>>> record before start of show" and "Time to record past end of show"
>>>>> prompts. These values are in seconds, and will only be used when  
>>>>> the
>>>>> same
>>>>> tuner isn't recording another program immediately before or after.
>>>> Is it not used even if the tuner's subsequent use is from the same  
>>>> MUX?
>>> I didn't want to over-complicate the description by getting into  
>>> the whole
>>> area of cards, inputs, tuners, channels, virtual tuners etc. It's  
>>> not easy
>>> to give a simple yes or no answer without giving paragraphs of  
>>> supporting
>>> information, all of which is available if you look for it!
>> Ok, but it's fairly clear what is and isn't possible. Does it add the
>> soft padding in all cases where it is possible, as far as you know?
> 
> Define where it is possible.
> 
> I think the simple answer is NO, the soft padding will not always  
> work. If you want padding 100% of the time, you need to add hard  
> padding, which is set up on a per recording schedule basis. If the  
> tuner is going to record 2 shows back to back, regardless of channel,  
> the padding won't work. The backend won't reschedule the second show  
> to another tuner, even if available, and it won't record to 2 files  
> when the shows are both on the same channel (to allow both shows to  
> get padded without one being only on the beginning/end of the other).

Ah right. That was what I was wondering, So it wont use a second
tuner just for the sake of soft padding.

> There are plenty of people that would like the soft padding to work  
> differently. Maybe we need a rubber padding request, that will  
> reschedule programs to free tuners when available to get padding more  
> often. Also, if when two shows record back to back, the padding should  
> be able to start outputting the video to two files so recording "B"  
> will get a minute of preroll without cutting recording "A" short, and  
> recording "A" can get a minute of postroll without recording "B"  
> starting late.
> 
> Again, that would be a feature request. Call it rubber padding (not  
> quite hard, but not quite so soft either)

I can imagine it's a hard problem. I was just interested.  I'm finding
hard padding works just fine for me at the moment, and I just love
MythTV's scheduling the way it is.

Cheers,
	Paul.