[mythtv-users] Right then....how to tell recording to start xxx minutes in rather then at beginning?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Another,

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 10:05:22 PM, you wrote:

> Yea, skip doesn't want to work on HD transmissions.....I hadn't tried
> edit though....good idea I'll try it later.

> Tnks.

> On 3 August 2016 at 20:50, Mike Perkins
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 03/08/16 20:09, Another Sillyname wrote:
>>>
>>> The BBC are now showing the Olympics in a glorious 8 channel Red
>>> Button festival....I won't sleep for a month!!!!
>>>
>>> However I'll explain for non UK based users.
>>>
>>> The BBC Red Button service in effect turns digital channels on and off
>>> as required so if a certain Olympics event is due to start at say
>>> 14:00 the programming will start at say 13:45 and the channel will go
>>> live literally maybe a minute before the programming starts.
>>>
>>> In SD this hasn't usually created a problem.
>>>
>>> However in HD when you try to playback the recording has started
>>> early.....the HD decoder tries to play the file and borks (as the
>>> channel probably hasn't 'turned on' when the recording started), if
>>> you play the file with VLC it's fine...so it's there.
>>>
>>> I suspect that myth is looking for video info at the start of playback
>>> to decide what decode mode it needs to go into and when there isn't
>>> any it segfaults.
>>>
>>> So how can I tell myth to start playback say 4 minutes into a recording?
>>>
>>> I can't change the recording rules...there's far far to many
>>> recordings to want to mess around with (unless I can setup a rule such
>>> as "If this recording is on 'BBC RB HD' then start recording 5 minutes
>>> later then normal).
>>>
>> I've had a similar problem with (SD) programs starting at 19:00 on BBC4 as I
>> set 5 minutes pre-roll and there often isn't anything there at the start of
>> recording.
>>
>> The quick way round that is to press 'skip' while the "Please Wait" words
>> are on the screen, which surprisingly works. That jumps the preset skip
>> distance into the file and is usually enough to get past the blank bit.
>>
>> You can also press 'E' when "Please Wait" is displayed and that gives you
>> the chance to edit out the offending bit of bad recording.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Perkins

I think you can use negative values for start early in your rules. But
than you have to know it is starting later.

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