[mythtv-users] Disable Mythical Bookmark

[Anthony Giggins]

On 19 October 2016 at 06:35, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Mike,
>
> Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 10:23:10 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 18 October 2016 at 20:35, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com>wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> >   ---- On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:11:09 +0100 Mark Goldberg
> > <marklgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote ----
>   >> Is there any easy way to disable the new "Mythical Bookmark" that is
> in 0.28? I have off the air TV in the US and Schedules Direct, and they
> often start the program up to a minute off. I used to just fast forward to
> when it starts, or just wait, which required no action. Now, I have to jump
> back on most of the recordings to see the start of the show. I don't find
> it helpful to start playback after the preroll in my circumstance. I am
> sure is it helpful to other people. An option to use it or not use it would
> be useful.
>   >>
>   >> Mark
>   >>
> >
> >
> >  i cant directly help, but i dint really understand why they
> > implimented this feature. when i last enquired about this function,
> > The easiest way to "disable" this was to add 1min to the 'start early
> record' option.
> >
>
>
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> > I have to say that here in Australia, this feature is really
> > useful. Because of the random nature of program start times, my
> > default setting is to pre-record 15 minutes, and post-record 30
> > minutes, because it really is necessary, and not just because of
> > occasional special incidents (important breaking news etc.), that's
> > just the way the networks run over here! I always found it a real
> > pain to skip 15 minutes forward at the start of most programs.
>
> button-up/down 10 min skipping
> button-right 1 min forward
> button-left 10 sec backward
>
> very fast in finding the real start, so no need for a just as random
> 'magical?' startpoint that makes searching for the start only slower
> as you have to look two ways.
>
> > I agree though that an option to enable it or disable it should be
> available.
>
>
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>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>
>
I second Mike's Comments,
As he mentioned Australian Broadcasters are terrible at starting and
stopping at the right times (I run a 10 min hard roll pre/post + an extra
10min soft roll pre/post),
while it is only marginally easier then the the 10min skip it is easier and
its not random it completely depends on your pre-roll settings "you" set on
your recording schedules and as previously mentioned the workaround is to
automatically run a user job to run clear the bookmark mythutil
--clearbookmarks --chanid %CHANID% --starttime %STARTTIMEUTC%

Alternatively mythtv is opensource you could fork the project prior to this
change and compile yourself :)

Cheers,

Anthony
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