[mythtv-users] Few seconds missing in recordings (progress with analog overlapping?)

[jeetu.golani at gmail.com]

Hi Mike,

> But now is probably a good time for the most important question--do you
> really *need* those 3 seconds?  If so, get more tuners and use start

Thanks again for writing in. I guess I don't "absolutely" need the few
seconds in my current setup, barring a couple of scenarios where the
time went off by 5 seconds and I would have liked to see the credits
of the programs that showed up then :)

> early/end late.  If not, set a start early/end late of 20sec or so, and
> set, "Avoid back to back recordings," and that's as good as you can get
> without more tuners.

I'll try this for sure and see how this works :)

Thanks again.

Bye for now


On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/2011 03:05 AM, jeetu.golani wrote:
>>> That is /not/ start early and end late.  That is "time to get a capture
>>> card and hard drives running".  Start early and end late are specified
>>> on the individual recording rules in minutes, not seconds.
>> ah :)....thanks for pointing this out....I got confused since the menu
>> lists it as "time to record before start of show" and "time to record
>> after end of show". I see some references to soft padding and hard
>> padding in prior mails to the forum and thought this was what they
>> meant by soft padding :)....my bad :)
>>
>> Unfortunately setting the start early and end late in the individual
>> recording rule leads to a conflict when there are back to back
>> recordings :(
>
> Thus my saying, "unless you have [enough] *additional tuners* that you
> can use and can use 'start early' and 'end late' settings on all your
> recording rules, you're going to miss those few seconds," (emphasis added).
>> any tips you can give as to what's the best I can try to get with a
>> single analog tuner?...and any clues as to even a basic overlap
>> recording mechanism is on the drawing board?
>>
>> Thanks so much again....appreciate all your help :)
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge none of the developers are working on it.
>
> But now is probably a good time for the most important question--do you
> really *need* those 3 seconds?  If so, get more tuners and use start
> early/end late.  If not, set a start early/end late of 20sec or so, and
> set, "Avoid back to back recordings," and that's as good as you can get
> without more tuners.
>
> Mike
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