[mythtv-users] Mythtv smart recording

[Conrad]

One way that I can see (and I am no expert in the way the recordings are
processed... ) is for myth to have a pre-processing step that will
create markers within the recorded file.
Once the recording is stopped/stops, the number of actual markers can be
compared to the expected, based on pre-processing info, and if they do not
match Mythtv will automatically look for another instance of the program in
the guide and schedule to re-record.  At that point it can either re-record
the entire show or start from the previous marker; possibly some minor
cleanup might need to take place before that.


On 5/21/08, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <
steve at priorityelectronics.com> wrote:
>
>  Because of commercials, that might be impossible. But, somehow if you
> could tell myth to record the same show but start where you stopped, but
> have it start 5 minutes before you stopped, that way it doesn't miss
> anything...that would be cool...then to have it merge the recordings so that
> you don't have to worry about two recordings...that would be cool. It would
> then delete out the cut points before merging so you don't have interlapping
> portions of the program.
>
> So you watch tv from 12:00 to 12:45, then stop it, but that show is on
> again later at 3pm, so the recorder would record from 3:40 till the end of
> the program.
>
> What i'd like to see is to somehow be able to specify a time slot to always
> leave one of your tuners free. My wife loves to watch live tv at a certain
> time each day, usually for around 45 minutes to an hour and a half...She has
> to cancel recordings often during that time in order to watch tv, so if myth
> just dind't schedule recordings during that period, tv would be free for
> her, and the schedule would adjust and record those movies/shows at other
> times.
>
> -Steve
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:
> mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Conrad
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:55 AM
> *To:* Discussion about mythtv
> *Subject:* [mythtv-users] Mythtv smart recording
>
>  Let's say that I have one (analog) tuner in my box and that I have a
> scheduled recording, from 5:30 to 7:30.  For some odd reason ( e.g major
> newsbreak) I need to watch live tv around 6:30, I am assuming that my
> recording will be interrupted once I switch to livetv.  How can I set Mythtv
> to find the next broadcast of the scheduled recording and resume the
> interrupted recording at the point where it was previously stopped?  Is that
> even possible?  If not wouldn't that be a great use case?
>
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