[mythtv-users] Recordings starting a minute late instead of early

[Thanos Agelatos]

Hello again,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Mark Boyum <mark at boyum.us> wrote:

> > When it asks "how many seconds to start earlier" you should give a
> POSITIVE
> > number e.g. 60  for 1 min earlier. I had understood by mistake that you
> need
> > a negative there (the control mistakenly allows this!!) and if you put
> -60
> > it will start 1 minute LATER.
>
> I'm not sure that I would say, "mistakenly".  Negative numbers are
> used in quite a few of my recording rules as many of my son's programs
>
> It is clearly a matter of being precise in what is meant, because this is
what makes a good user experience. A control cannot have text " ... seconds
to start earlier " and allow negatives or positives. It should say "how many
seconds to adjust the start time with" so the user can understand -60 is 60
seconds earlier, and +60 is 60 sec. later. A tooltip may also help at that
point with additional explanation.
I know this because of painful experience, since due to known Greek
'precision' :), programmes never start at the exact time, and I _always_
have to modify the default settings to start 5 min before and end 5 minutes
after, just to be on the safe side.

Unfortunately, IMHO (and I've been using Myth since 0.17 circa 2005) in many
places there are such 'dubious' texts that confuse the end user. The
mythtv-setup is mostly plagued with this, but "setup" on frontend also has
the same in various places.

-- 

Thanos
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